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Lyell Land
Lyell Land is a peninsula in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. It is located in the King Oscar Fjord area. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. It was named by Swedish Arctic explorer A.G. Nathorst on his 1899 expedition after Scottish geologist Charles Lyell (1797–1875). Geography Lyell Land is bounded by Kempe Fjord in the north —beyond which lies Suess Land, its branch Rhedin Fjord in the northwest, Narwhal Sound in the northeast —beyond which lies Ella Island, the King Oscar Fjord in the east —opposite Traill Island, Segelsällskapet Fjord to the southeast and Forsblad Fjord —beyond which lies Nathorst Land, in the south. Its northernmost headland is Cape Alfred. At the western end flows the Wahlenberg Glacier, beyond which lies Gletscherland Gletscherland, meaning "Glacier Land", is a peninsula in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. History Thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suess Land
Suess Land is a peninsula in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. History This peninsula was named by A.G. Nathorst after Austrian geologist Eduard Suess (1831–1914) at the time of his 1899 venture searching for traces of the lost Andrée expedition. Nathorst had previously translated a book by Eduard Suess into Swedish. Geography Suess Land has a mountainous, Alpine terrain. It is located west of Ymer Island, south of Andree Land, north of Lyell Land and northeast of Gletscherland.Google Earth It is bounded in the west by Kjerulf Fjord, in the north by Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord, in the northeast by the Antarctic Sound, in the east by the King Oscar Fjord, in the south by the Kempe Fjord Kempe Fjord ( da, Kempes Fjord) is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively it lies in the Northeast Greenland National Park area. This fjord is part of the King Oscar Fjord system.''Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polhem Valley
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Argand Glacier
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Gletscherland
Gletscherland, meaning "Glacier Land", is a peninsula in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. History This peninsula was named during the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland owing to it being largely glaciated. The name "Canton Land" has also been used. Geography True to its name, Gletscherland is largely glaciated, with many ice caps and glaciers. It is located southwest of Suess Land, northwest of Lyell Land, and southeast of Goodenoughland. Google Earth The peninsula has a mountainous, Alpine terrain; Mount Lugano is Gletscherland's highest point. The Cecilia Nunatak rises to the southwest. It is bounded in the northwest by the Hisinger Glacier, in the north and northeast by the Dickson Fjord, in the southeast by the Rhedin Fjord, in the south by the Wahlenberg Glacier and to the west it is connected to the mainland. The Röhss Fjord and the valley at its head, almost divide the peninsula in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Alfred
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Nathorst Land (Greenland)
Nathorst Land is an area in King Christian X Land, Eastern Greenland. It lies in the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. The area is remote and uninhabited. Nathorst Land was named after Swedish Arctic explorer Alfred Gabriel Nathorst (1850–1921) by Lauge Koch during aerial surveys in 1932 which were part of the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland. Geography Nathorst Land is a mountainous region bounded by the F. Graae Glacier and the inner Nordvestfjord to the south, and to the north by Tærskeldal and Forsblad Fjord, beyond which lies Lyell Land. To the east it is separated from the Stauning Alps region by the Alpefjord, Prinsesse Glacier and Borgbjerg Glacier. To the west lies Charcot Land and to the northwest the Sortehest nunatak and the Greenland ice sheet.Google Earth Besides the ones bounding it, there are several glaciers in Nathorst Land, such as the Hammerskjøld Glacier, Jomfru Glacier, Violin Glacier, Toscano Glacier, Syd Glacier, Princess Glacier, Spærre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traill Island
Traill Island ( da, Traill Ø) is a large island in eastern Greenland. It is named after zoologist Thomas Stewart Traill. The island is a part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. Geography Traill Island is a coastal island located in the desolate region of Eastern Greenland on the eastern side of King Oscar Fjord, northeast of Davy Sound. Geographical Society Island lies to the north, separated by a narrow channel, the Vega Sound. The southernmost point of the island is Cape Simpson. Dream Bay ''(Drømmebugten)'' is located WNW of the headland and larger Mountnorris Fjord to the northeast. The highest summit of the island, a high unnamed peak of the Svinhufvud Range is one of the ultra-prominent An ultra-prominent peak, or Ultra for short, is a mountain summit with a topographic prominence of or more; it is also called a P1500. The prominence of a peak is the minimum height of climb to the summit on any route from a higher peak, or fr ... summits of Green ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ella Island
Ella Island, or Ella Ø, is an island in eastern Greenland, within Northeast Greenland National Park. Geography Ella Island is located at the mouth of Kempe Fjord in the northern end of King Oscar Fjord. To the east lie larger Traill Island and Geographical Society Island. Off its northern end lie Maria Island and Ruth Island. The island has an area of 143.6 km2 and a shoreline of 59.6 kilometres. Ella Island is separated from the western shore of the fjord by the Narwhal Sound. History Lauge Koch had a cabin on the northern side of the island named ''Eagle's nest''. The botanist Thorvald Sørensen spent the years 1931-1935 here. His observations formed the basis for his doctoral thesis in 1941. During World War II, US forces had an installation on the island called ''Bluie East Four''. The Sirius Sledge Patrol maintains a small base on the island which is staffed only in summer. In 1971 a meteorite was found on Ella Island, classified as a L-6 chondrite. See also *List ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Lyell
Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, (14 November 1797 – 22 February 1875) was a Scottish geologist who demonstrated the power of known natural causes in explaining the earth's history. He is best known as the author of ''Principles of Geology'' (1830–33), which presented to a wide public audience the idea that the earth was shaped by the same natural processes still in operation today, operating at similar intensities. The philosopher William Whewell termed this gradualistic view "uniformitarianism" and contrasted it with catastrophism, which had been championed by Georges Cuvier and was better accepted in Europe. The combination of evidence and eloquence in ''Principles'' convinced a wide range of readers of the significance of " deep time" for understanding the earth and environment. Lyell's scientific contributions included a pioneering explanation of climate change, in which shifting boundaries between oceans and continents could be used to explain long-term variati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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