Hazenland or ''Hazen Land'' is an uninhabited island of the
Lincoln Sea in
Peary Land, far northern
Greenland.
The island was named in May 1882 by
James Booth Lockwood of the
Lady Franklin Bay Expedition after General
William Babcock Hazen, who had organized the venture. Lockwood reached his farthest north (83° 24′N) on neighboring
Lockwood Island.
Geography
Hazenland is located off the eastern side of
East Jensen Island
MacMillan Island ( da, MacMillan Ø), also known as East Jensen Island, is an uninhabited island of the Lincoln Sea in Peary Land, far northern Greenland.
The island was formerly named after Danish zoologist Adolf Severin Jensen (1866 - 1953), pr ...
in the
De Long Fjord zone. The island has an area of and a shoreline of .
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Its eastern shore forms the western side of Weyprecht Fjord
Weyprecht Fjord is a fjord in Peary Land, northern Greenland. To the northwest, the fjord opens into the Lincoln Sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.
The fjord is named after Austro-Hungarian Arctic explor ...
, beyond which lies Lockwood Island. Small and narrow Inge Island
Inge is a given name in various Germanic language-speaking cultures. In Swedish and Norwegian, it is mostly used as a masculine, but less often also as a feminine name, sometimes as a short form of Ingeborg, while in Danish, Estonian, Frisian, Ge ...
, located at the mouth of De Long Fjord lies off the western side of Hazenland Island. Wild Sound
Wild, wild, wilds or wild may refer to:
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* Wild animal
* Wilderness, a wild natural environment
* Wildness, the quality of being wild or untamed
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extends off the southwestern shore and MacMillan Island rises beyond it. Moa Island lies to the southeast at the mouth of Harder Fjord
Harder Fjord ( da, Harders Fjord) is a fjord in Peary Land, far northern Greenland.Google Maps
The Harder Ford Fault Zone (HFFZ) is a geological structural feature in North Greenland named after the fjord. Geography
Harder Fjord is the innermost ...
, separated from Hazenland's shore by a narrow sound.[Nunat Aqqi; Stednavne](_blank)
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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
Uninhabited islands of Greenland
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