Gertrud Rask Land ( da, Gertrud Rasks Land) is an area in
Peary Land
Peary Land is a peninsula in northern Greenland, extending into the Arctic Ocean. It reaches from Victoria Fjord in the west to Independence Fjord in the south and southeast, and to the Arctic Ocean in the north, with Cape Morris Jesup, the north ...
, North
Greenland
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. Administratively it is part of the
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 ...
.
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The territory was named by 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 ...
after Gertrud Rask
Gertrud Rask (167321 December 1735) was the first wife of the Danish-Norwegian missionary to Greenland Hans Egede and was the mother of the missionary and translator Paul Egede.
Life in Norway
Gertrud Rask (the parish register records her as Gj ...
(1673 – 1735), the wife of missionary Hans Egede
Hans Poulsen Egede (31 January 1686 – 5 November 1758) was a Dano-Norwegian Lutheran missionary who launched mission efforts to Greenland, which led him to be styled the Apostle of Greenland. He established a successful mission among the Inui ...
, during the 1921–1923 Bicentenary Jubilee Expedition surveys. Koch found no muskoxen
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in the area and deemed that it was too arduous for the animals to cross this barren, inhospitable expanse, so that they had to choose another route to reach the northeast coast of Peary Land in their migrations.[Dan Laursen, ''The Place Names of North Greenland.'' Kommissionen for Videnskabelige Undersøgelser i Grønland (ed.): Meddelelser om Grønland. Vol. 180, Nr. 2. C. A. Reitzels Forlag, Kopenhagen 1972, ISBN 87-421-0070-4, p. 244][Geographical Items on North Greenland - Encyclopedia Arctica 14](_blank)
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Geography
Gertrud Rask Land is located in northern Peary Land
Peary Land is a peninsula in northern Greenland, extending into the Arctic Ocean. It reaches from Victoria Fjord in the west to Independence Fjord in the south and southeast, and to the Arctic Ocean in the north, with Cape Morris Jesup, the north ...
, to the east of Roosevelt Land
Roosevelt Land ( da, Roosevelts Land) is a peninsula in far northern Greenland. It is a part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.Google Maps
The territory was named by Robert Peary after US President Theodore Roosevelt (1858 – 1919).
Ge ...
, separated from it by the A. Harmsworth Glacier
A. Harmsworth Glacier or Alfred Harmsworth Glacier ( da, A. Harmsworth Gletscher) is a glacier in northern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park.
The glacier was named by Robert Peary after British newspa ...
. To the west it is limited by the Benedict Fjord
Benedict Fjord is a fjord in Peary Land, northern Greenland. To the north, the fjord opens into the Lincoln Sea of the Arctic Ocean.
The fjord was named by Robert Peary in honor of New York banker and yachtsman E. C. Benedict, one of the prominen ...
, and to the east by the Sands Fjord
Sands Fjord is a fjord in Peary Land, northern Greenland. To the north, the fjord opens into the Lincoln Sea of the Arctic Ocean. Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park.
The fjord was named by Robert Peary in honor ...
and the Nord Glacier
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. Another large glacier descends directly into the sea in the central part. To the south rise the highest peaks of the Roosevelt Range
The Roosevelt Range or Roosevelt Mountains ( da, Roosevelt Fjelde) is a mountain range in Northern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. Its highest peak is the highest point in Peary Land.
Locat ...
, including Helvetia Tinde
Helvetia Tinde (Helvetia Peak) is the highest mountain in the Roosevelt Range, Northern Greenland. It is also the highest mountain of the northernmost mountain range on Earth.
Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park ...
. To the north lies the frozen Lincoln Sea
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, where the northwesternmost headland is Cape Cannon
Cape Cannon ( da, Kap Cannon) is a headland in the Lincoln Sea, Arctic Ocean, North Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.
The cape was named by Robert Peary after Henry W. Cannon, one of the members of ...
, the northernmost one Cape Christian IV
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and the northeasternmost one Cape Hans Egede
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The terrain is harsh, mountainous and rugged, with numerous glaciated
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areas. The highest point of Gertrud Rask Land is a summit located in the inner part.[Map of far Northern Greenland.](_blank)
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Bibliography
*H.P. Trettin (ed.), ''Geology of the Innuitian Orogen and Arctic Platform of Canada and Greenland.'' 1991
* J. D. Friderichsen et al. ''Lithostratigraphic framework of the Upper Proterozoic and Lowe Paleozoic Deep Water Elastic Deposits of North Greenland'' 1982
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 ...
*Innuitian orogeny
The Innuitian orogeny, sometimes called the Ellesmere orogeny, was a major tectonic (mountain building) episode responsible for the formation of a series of mountain ranges in the Canadian Arctic and Northernmost Greenland. The episode started wit ...
References
External links
''Geographical Record'' - Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, Vol. 39, No. 1 (1907), pp. 28-42
Bekendtgørelse om fiskeriterritoriet ved Grønland
Geography of Greenland
Geography of the Arctic
Peary Land
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