Lindhard Island ( da, Lindhard Ø) is an uninhabited island of NE

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 is t ...

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The island lies at the western edge of

Dove Bay Dove Bay ( da, Dove Bugt) is a bay in King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. It is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park area. Etymology Dove bay is said to have been the legendary ''Breidifjòrdr'' of the Sagas of Icelanders. ...

, east of the

Bredebrae Bredebrae ( da, Bredebræ; "Broad Glacier"), sometimes also known as "Brede Glacier", is a large glacier in northeastern Greenland. It has its terminus on the east coast of the Greenland ice sheet. Geography The mighty Bredebrae is the front or th ...

, the broad glacier producing masses of large icebergs, at the head of Borg Fjord to the north of the island. The Bredebrae is formed by the confluence of two large glaciers east of

Queen Louise Land Queen Louise Land ( da, Dronning Louise Land; kl, Nuna Dronning Louise) is a vast mountainous region located west of Dove Bay, King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Par ...

, the Storstrommen flowing from the north and the

L. Bistrup Brae Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...

from the south. The island has an area of 263.3 km ² and a shoreline of 115.5 kilometres.UNEP
/ref> Lindhard Island was visited and explored on March 26, 1913, by the

1912–13 Danish Expedition to Queen Louise Land and Across the North Greenland Ice Sheet Year 191 ( CXCI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Apronianus and Bradua (or, less frequently, year 944 ''Ab urbe condit ...

led by J.P. Koch. The narrow Kavaler Fjord in the northern part of the island almost divides Lindhard Island in two. Kavaler Fjord was discovered and named by J.P. Koch's 1912–13 Danish Expedition. Kavaler Fjord was named after the most stubborn of the expedition's horses, Kavaler, on their visit to the island on March 26, 1913. Vigfús states that at that time the island had not been visited and was therefore inaccurately placed on the map. Earlier during the expedition, they had named Bag Fjord, which is Danish for Back Fjord, so named because it appeared from back of the island. Bag Fjord is formed between the Bredebræ glacier and the north-west corner of Lindhard Island, .

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Uninhabited islands of Greenland {{Greenland-geo-stub

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