Freuchen Land is a
peninsula in far northwestern
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 i ...
. It is a part of the
Northeast Greenland National Park.
History
Freuchen Land was named after Arctic explorer
Peter Freuchen (1886–1957), who took part in the 1906–1908
Denmark expedition and later in
Knud Rasmussen
Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen (; 7 June 1879 – 21 December 1933) was a Greenlandic–Danish polar explorer and anthropologist. He has been called the "father of Eskimology" (now often known as Inuit Studies or Greenlandic and Arctic Studie ...
's
Thule expeditions.
Geography
Freuchen Land is located to the northeast of
Nares Land
Nares Land or Naresland is an island in far northern Greenland. The island is named after Polar explorer Sir George Nares.
Geography
The island lies between the Victoria Fjord and the Nordenskjöld Fjord separated from the Freuchen Land Penins ...
, south of
Sverdrup Island, and west of
Nansen Land
Nansen Land is a peninsula in far northwestern Greenland. It is a part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.
The Arctic wolf is present in the peninsula. The northern shore facing the Lincoln sea slopes evenly and is fertile for the area, b ...
and the
Hans Tausen Ice Cap
Hans Tausen Ice Cap ( da, Hans Tausens Iskappe) is an ice cap in Peary Land, northern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.
Age
Ice cores show it is around 3500–4000 years old. It formed since the ...
. Its westernmost headland is
Cape Wegener.
The peninsula is bounded to the west by the
Nordenskiöld Fjord and to the east by the
J.P. Koch Fjord.
Navarana Fjord, a branch of J.P. Koch Fjord, cuts deeply southwards into the peninsula, nearly dividing it in two. This fjord was named after Peter Freuchen's
Inuit
Inuit (; iu, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, , dual: Inuuk, ) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories ...
wife, Navarana Mequpaluk (died 1921)
To the southeast lie the
Henson Gletscher and the
Expedition Glacier which have their terminus at the J.P. Koch Fjord.
To the south the peninsula is attached to the mainland and its
ice cap.
Freuchen Land is mountainous and mostly
glaciated
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in its high interior.
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Elevations reaching are found in the central part of the peninsula.
[''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute,'' p. 94]
See also
*
Cartographic expeditions to Greenland
This is a list of recognised pioneering expeditions to Greenland that contributed to the cartography of the territory.
See also
* Geography of Greenland
* Arctic exploration
* List of Arctic expeditions
This list of Arctic expeditions is a t ...
References
External links
''Geographical and geological setting of the Henson Gletscher formation''
Peninsulas of Greenland
Peary Land
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