Geographical Society Island () is an island off
Foster Bay in northeastern
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 ...
.
Geography
The island has an area of 1,717 km
2. It is mountainous with Svedenborg Fjeld as the highest point at 1,730 m. To the north lies the mouth of the
Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord
Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord ( da, Kejser Franz Josef Fjord; kl, Kangerluk Kejser Franz Joseph) is a major fjord system in the NE Greenland National Park area, East Greenland.
Geography
The Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord has its mouth in the Foster Ba ...
with
Ymer Island
Ymer Island ( da, Ymer Ø) is an island in northeastern Greenland. The island is a part of Northeast Greenland National Park.
Ymer Island is named after the Swedish geographical journal ''Ymer'', which published many accounts of Swedish expedit ...
to the NW and smaller
Bantekoe Island to the NE in
Foster Bay. To the south lies
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 ...
, separated by a narrow sound, the Vega Sound. In the west, over
King Oscar Fjord lies
Ella Island
Ella Island, or Ella Ø, is an island in eastern Greenland, within Northeast Greenland National Park. Geography
Ella Island is located at the mouth of Kempe Fjord in the northern end of King Oscar Fjord. To the east lie larger Traill Island and ...
.
Geology
From west to east, the rocks constituting the island are sandstone of roughly
Devonian,
Carboniferous and
Cretaceous
The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era, as well as the longest. At around 79 million years, it is the longest geological period of ...
age, and some smaller areas with
Triassic
The Triassic ( ) is a geologic period and system (stratigraphy), system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago (Year#Abbreviations yr and ya, Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.36 ...
and
Jurassic
The Jurassic ( ) is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya. The Jurassic constitutes the middle period of ...
sandstone.
See also
*
List of islands of Greenland
References
External links
*{{commonscat inline, Geographical Society Island
Uninhabited islands of Greenland