Herluf Trolle 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 nort ...

, North

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. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.Nunat Aqqi; Stednavne
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The area has two clearly defined parts: Herlufsholm Strand, the flat southeasterly point of Peary Land, and the easternmost mountainous hinterland of the peninsula which rises to the north of Independence Fjord.

History

There are ancient archaeological remains in the area, including the frame of a long

umiak The umiak, umialak, umiaq, umiac, oomiac, oomiak, ongiuk, or anyak is a type of open skin boat, used by both Yupik and Inuit, and was originally found in all coastal areas from Siberia to Greenland. First arising in Thule times, it has tradition ...

and a number of camping grounds with abandoned utensils, that were found at excavations in Herlufsholm Strand. This coastal zone may be the first place of the eastward spreading of the early Arctic

Whale Hunting Whaling is the process of hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that became increasingly important in the Industrial Revolution. It was practiced as an organized industry a ...

Culture from Alaska. In 1900 Robert Peary discerned Cape Clarence Wyckoff, a broad headland on the northeastern shore of Herluf Trolle Land, from Wyckoff Island, a place by the shore which Peary mistook for an island. It was the farthest point that he reached after rounding the northern end of Greenland. The coast south of this cape was explored by J.P. Koch in the course of the 1906-08

Danmark Expedition The Denmark expedition ( da, Danmark-ekspeditionen), also known as the Denmark Expedition to Greenland's Northeast Coast, and as the Danmark Expedition after the ship, was an expedition to the northeast of Greenland in 1906–1908. Despite being ...

and was named after historical Danish mariner

Herluf Trolle Herluf Trolle (14 January 1516 – 25 June 1565) was a Danish naval hero, Admiral of the Fleet and co-founder of Herlufsholm School (''Herlufsholm Skole og Gods''), a private boarding school at Næstved on the island of Zealand in Denmark. ...

(1516 – 1565). Later it would be mapped accurately by

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by means of surveys that he undertook during the Danish Bicentenary Jubilee Expedition in 1920-23 and the cartographic air expedition of 1938.

Geography

Herluf Trolle Land is located in southeastern

, on the northern side of the mouth area of the

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. The limits of the territory are not clearly defined. To the west it is bounded by

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, and to the north by the

G.B. Schley Fjord G.B. Schley Fjord is a fjord in Peary Land, northern Greenland. To the east, the fjord opens into the Wandel Sea of the Arctic Ocean. The fjord was named by Robert Peary after G.B. Schley, one of the founding members of the Peary Arctic Club in ...

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/ref> Herluf Trolle Land is the mountainous sector located to the west of Herlufsholm Strand. There are several low mountain ranges in the northeastern portion of the territory and two small ice caps. In the north a mountainous plateau rises to a height of and high Mount Clarence Wyckoff rises near

Hellefisk Fjord Hellefisk Fjord ( da, Hellefiskefjord) is a fjord in Peary Land, northern Greenland. To the northeast, the fjord opens into the Wandel Sea of the Arctic Ocean. This fjord is named after the Greenland halibut ( da, Hellefisk). Geography The Hellefi ...

. Except for these heights the area is largely ice-free. The plains bordering the mountain zone are crossed by numerous rivers.

Herlufsholm Strand

The coastal zone is known as Herlufsholm Strand, a broad, low-lying strip of land between the Wandel Sea shore to the east and the mountains of the interior to the west. It extends between Cape Eigil Knuth (Kap København) and

Cape Henry Parish Cape Henry Parish ( da, Kap Henry Parish) is a broad headland in the Wandel Sea, Arctic Ocean, northernmost Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. History In 1900 Peary explored the north coast of Greenla ...

, with Cape Eiler Rasmussen as the easternmost point. Mudder Bay (Mudderbugten), a wide, open bay, is located near the southern limit by Cape Eigil Knuth. The sea facing the Herlufsholm Strand shore is frozen throughout the entire year. Mount Henry Parish rises near the northern end and Kjovesletten is a coastal flatland that lies to the southwest. There are

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in the area.Greenland Pilot
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Bibliography

*H.P. Trettin (ed.), ''Geology of the Innuitian Orogen and Arctic Platform of Canada and Greenland.'' 1991 * B. Fristrup, ''Winderosion within the Arctic Deserts.'' 1953 *Bjarne Grønnow, Jens Fog Jensen: ''The Northernmost Ruins of the Globe. Eigil Knuth’s Archaeological Investigations in Peary Land and Adjacent Areas of High Arctic Greenland'' (= Man & Society. Vol. 29). Museum Tusculanums Forlag, Københavns Universitet, Copenhagen 2003,

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