Djævleøen, meaning "Devil Island", is an uninhabited island 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 vast ...

, NE

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 ...

History

The island was named ''Djævleøen'' by the 1932 Gefion expedition. It had been previously also known as "Teufelkap Island" —a name used by

Georg Carl Amdrup Vice Admiral Sir Georg Carl Amdrup (Copenhagen, Denmark, November 19, 1866 – Copenhagen, January 15, 1947), RN was a Danish naval officer, Vice Admiral and Greenland researcher. Career In 1884, Amdrup, of the Royal Danish Navy, was sent to ...

in 1913— because of the

Teufelkap Teufelkap (german: Teufels-Kap), meaning "Devil Cape", is a headland in King Frederick VIII Land, Northeast Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. Its cliffs are a home for seabird colonies. History Teu ...

, its conspicuous eastern headland that had been previously named by the Second

German North Polar Expedition The German North Polar Expeditions were a short series of mid-19th century German expeditions to the Arctic. The aim was to explore the North Pole region and to brand the newly united, Prussian-led German Empire as a great power. In 1866, German ge ...

led by

Carl Koldewey Carl Christian Koldewey (26 October 1837 – 17 May 1908) was a German Arctic explorer. He led both German North Polar Expeditions. Life and career Koldewey was the son of merchant Johann Christian Koldewey and his wife Wilhelmine Meyer. Koldewey ...

.Amdrup, G. 1913: Report on the Danmark Expedition to the northeast coast of Greenland 1906–08. Meddelelser om Grønland 41(1), 270 pp
/ref> The curved horse-shoe shaped northern part of the island was named ''Hestefoden'' by the 1906–08

Danmark expedition The Denmark expedition ( da, Danmark-ekspeditionen), also known as the Denmark Expedition to Greenland's Northeast Coast, and as the Danmark Expedition after the ship, was an expedition to the northeast of Greenland in 1906–1908. Despite being ...

, because the

devil A devil is the personification of evil as it is conceived in various cultures and religious traditions. It is seen as the objectification of a hostile and destructive force. Jeffrey Burton Russell states that the different conceptions of t ...

( da, djævle) is often represented as having hooved feet.

Geography

The island lies in the southwestern area of

Dove Bay Dove Bay ( da, Dove Bugt) is a bay in King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. It is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park area. Etymology Dove bay is said to have been the legendary ''Breidifjòrdr'' of the Sagas of Icelanders. ...

. To the north lie the Licht Islands and to the west Godfred Hansen Island. To the south lies

Nanok Island Nanok East Greenland Fishing Company (1929–1990), generally known as Nanok, was a Danish company in Greenland, mainly active in the hunting and trading of arctic foxes for their fur. A cultural organization with the objective of propagating kn ...

, separated from Djævleøen by the A. Stelling Sound, and further south Tvillingerne.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute,'' p. 125

Bibliography

*A. K. Higgins, Jane A. Gilotti, M. Paul Smith (eds.), ''The Greenland Caledonides: Evolution of the Northeast Margin of Laurentia''.

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View of Teufelkap and Surroundings seen from the west coast of Store Koldewey
Uninhabited islands of Greenland {{Greenland-geo-stub

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