The Bonsall Islands is a small coastal island cluster in the
Avannaata
Avannaata (, da, Det Nordlige, lit=The Northern) is a municipality of Greenland created on 1 January 2018 from the bulk of the former Qaasuitsup municipality. It encompasses an area of 522,700 km2 and has 10,726 inhabitants.
Geography
In ...
municipality, off northwest
Greenland
Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland is t ...
.
The islands are named after Amos Bonsall of the
Second Grinnell Expedition.
Geography
The Bonsall Islands are a chain of islands, islets and rocks at the southern end of
Peabody Bay
Peabody Bay ( da, Peabody Bugt) is a large bay in northwestern Greenland. Administratively it is part of Avannaata municipality. Geography
Peabody Bay is located on the eastern side of the Kane Basin off the western end of the Humboldt Glacier.
C ...
, east of
Dallas Bay. They are located off
Cape Agassiz
Cape Agassiz is the east tip of Hollick-Kenyon Peninsula, a narrow ice-drowned spur extending east from the main mountain axis of the Antarctic Peninsula between Mobiloil Inlet and Revelle Inlet. The cape is the east end of a line from Cape Je ...
, to the SW of the
McGary Islands
The McGary Islands is a small coastal island group in Avannaata municipality, off NW Greenland.
The islands are named after James McGary of the Second Grinnell Expedition. They are a breeding ground for the common eider
The common eider (pr ...
. These small islands line the shore of
Inglefield Land
Inglefield Land is an unglaciated area along the northwestern coast of Greenland. It was named after English explorer Edward Augustus Inglefield.
History
Inglefield Land is noted for its archaeological sites, which show evidence of occupation by ...
, which is deeply indented, for approximately 10 km.
[''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 88]
See also
*
List of islands of Greenland
The following is an alphabetical list of the islands of Greenland. Many of these islands have both a Kalaallisut language name and a European language name.
Islands and archipelagoes
* Aaluik
* Aasiaat Archipelago
* Achton Friis Islands
* A ...
References
External links
Explanatory notes to the Geological map of Greenland
Uninhabited islands of Greenland
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