Ella Island, or Ella Ø, is an island in eastern
Greenland
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, within
Northeast Greenland National Park
Northeast Greenland National Park ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaanni nuna eqqissisimatitaq, da, Grønlands Nationalpark) is the world's largest national park and the 10th List of largest protected areas in the world, largest protected area (the only large ...
.
Geography
Ella Island is located at the mouth of
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.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Gr ...
in the northern end of
King Oscar Fjord. To the east lie larger
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 ...
and
Geographical Society Island
Geographical Society Island () is an island off Foster Bay in northeastern Greenland. Geography
The island has an area of 1,717 km2. It is mountainous with Svedenborg Fjeld as the highest point at 1,730 m. To the north lies the mouth o ...
. Off its northern end lie
Maria Island
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and
Ruth Island
Ruth Island (also known as Ruth Cay) is an artificial island off the southern coast of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
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.
The island has an area of 143.6 km
2 and a shoreline of 59.6 kilometres. Ella Island is separated from the western shore of the fjord by the
Narwhal Sound
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.
History
Lauge Koch
Lauge Koch (5 July 1892 – 5 June 1964) was a Danish geologist and Arctic explorer.
Biography
Lauge Koch was born in 1892 to Karl and Elisabeth Koch. His development as a scientist was greatly influenced by his father's second cousin Johan Pet ...
had a cabin on the northern side of the island named ''Eagle's nest''. The botanist
Thorvald Sørensen
Thorvald (Thorwald) Julius Sørensen (4 July 1902 – 21 June 1973) was a Danish botanist and evolutionary biologist. Biography
Sørensen was professor at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University 1953–1955 and at the University of Co ...
spent the years 1931-1935 here. His observations formed the basis for his doctoral thesis in 1941.
During
World War II
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, US forces had an installation on the island called ''
Bluie
Bluie was the United States military code name for Greenland during World War II. It is remembered by the numbered sequence of base locations identified by the 1941 United States Coast Guard South Greenland Survey Expedition, and subsequently us ...
East Four''. The
Sirius Sledge Patrol maintains a small base on the island which is staffed only in summer.
In 1971 a
meteorite
A meteorite is a solid piece of debris from an object, such as a comet, asteroid, or meteoroid, that originates in outer space and survives its passage through the atmosphere to reach the surface of a planet or Natural satellite, moon. When the ...
was found on Ella Island,
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.
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
Weblinks
Photograph of Sirius summer station
Map of Ella Island
showing location of station
Uninhabited islands of Greenland
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