Nares Land or Naresland is an island in far northern
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 ...
. The island is named after Polar explorer Sir
George Nares
Vice-Admiral Sir George Strong Nares (24 April 1831 – 15 January 1915) was a Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer. He commanded the ''Challenger'' Expedition, and the British Arctic Expedition. He was highly thought of as a leader an ...
.
Geography
The island lies between the
Victoria Fjord
Victoria Fjord, also known as Victoria Inlet, is a large fjord in northern Greenland.
Its eastern shore forms the western limit of Peary Land.
Geography
To the northwest the fjord opens into the Lincoln Sea of the Arctic Ocean. Wulff Land forms t ...
and the
Nordenskjöld Fjord separated from the
Freuchen Land
Freuchen Land is a peninsula in far northwestern Greenland. It is a part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.
History
Freuchen Land was named after Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen (1886–1957), who took part in the 1906–1908 Denmark exp ...
Peninsula of the mainland by a narrow sound.
Stephenson Island and
John Murray Island
John Murray Island, Danish John Murray Ø, is an uninhabited island in the far north of Greenland, in the Northeast Greenland National Park area.
Geography
John Murray Island is located off the mouth of J.P. Koch Fjord in the Lincoln Sea
Linc ...
lie off its northern end. Nares Land is fairly large, with an area of and a shoreline of . It is long and up to wide in its widest place. It has an average elevation of and its highest point is .
The area where the island lies has a severe
Polar climate
The polar climate regions are characterized by a lack of warm summers but with varying winters. Every month in a polar climate has an average temperature of less than . Regions with polar climate cover more than 20% of the Earth's area. Most of ...
and was formerly part of
Avannaa, originally ''Nordgrønland'' ("North Greenland"), a former county of Greenland until 31 December 2008.
The sea around the island is frozen practically the whole year round.
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 ...
*
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 ...
References
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Uninhabited islands of Greenland
Peary Land