Crown Prince Christian Land ( da, Kronprins Christian Land) is a large peninsula in northern

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. It is a part of

King Frederick VIII Land King Frederick VIII Land ( da, Kong Frederik VIII Land) is a major geographic division of northeastern Greenland. It extends above the Arctic Circle from 76°N to 81°N in a N/S direction along the coast of the Greenland Sea. History This va ...

and administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park. It was named after Crown Prince Christian, later

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(1870–1947) by the 1906–08 Denmark expedition.

Geography

Crown Prince Christian Land extends 100 km NE from

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. It is a largely glaciated peninsula surrounded to the north by the

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of the

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, to the east by

Fram Strait The Fram Strait is the passage between Greenland and Svalbard, located roughly between 77°N and 81°N latitudes and centered on the prime meridian. The Greenland and Norwegian Seas lie south of Fram Strait, while the Nansen Basin of the Arcti ...

, to the south by the Ingolf Fjord and the Greenland Sea, with

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, and to the west by the Greenland Ice Sheet. The northern section of the peninsula is known as Erik S. Henius Land. In the northwest the smaller

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consists mostly of lowland. The southeastern part is mountainous and is known as Amdrup Land. The outer part of Crown Prince Christian Land is almost totally covered by the Flade Isblink ice cap.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 128 Romer Lake, famous for its striking Elephant Foot Glacier, is a long and narrow lake running parallel to

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at the western end of the peninsula to the west of the Princess Elizabeth Alps.

Centrum Lake Centrum Lake ( da, Centrumsø, also known as ''Centrum Sø''), is a lake in King Frederick VIII Land, near Greenland's northeastern coast. The lake and its surroundings are part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. The Danish military b ...

lies at the southern end.

Princess Dagmar Island Princess Dagmar Island ( da, Prinsesse Dagmar Ø) is an uninhabited coastal island of the Wandel Sea in King Frederick VIII Land, Greenland. The island was named after Princess Dagmar of Denmark. The Danish military base/weather station Nord i ...

lies off its northwestern shores. The

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Nord is its only settlement. File:Nordostrundingen C 501 map sheet.tif, Map of Kronprins Christian Land's northern half File:1024 Nordpolausflug- Nordostgrönland-05052012183.jpg, View of the Elephant Foot Glacier at Romer Lake

References

External links

Weather forecast for Kronprins Christian Land
Peninsulas of Greenland {{greenland-geo-stub