Queen Margrethe II Land ( da, Dronning Margrethe II Land) is a
peninsula
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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 ...
. Administratively it belongs to the
NE Greenland National Park
Northeast Greenland National Park ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaanni nuna eqqissisimatitaq, da, Grønlands Nationalpark) is the world's largest national park and the 10th largest protected area (the only larger protected areas all consist mostly of sea). ...
Denmark
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, song_type = National and royal anthem
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, subdivision_type = Sovereign state
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on 16 April 1990 on the occasion of her 50th birthday.
In 1932 a Norwegian hunting station was built at the southern end of Hochstetter Foreland, on the western shore of
Peters Bay
Peters Bay ( da, Peters Bugt) is a bay of the Greenland Sea in King Christian X Land, Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the NE Greenland National Park area. History
The bay was first surveyed by Carl Koldewey during the 1869–70 Second G ...
, by the mouth of
Ardencaple Fjord
Ardencaple Fjord is a fjord in King Christian X Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. History
Ardencaple Fjord was named by Douglas Clavering as "Ardencaple Inlet" in 1823, but the in ...
. It was named
Jonsbu
Jonsbu was a Norwegian hunting and radio station (Jonsbu Radio/LMW) located on the coast of Eastern Greenland in present-day King Christian X Land.
Administratively the area where the hut stood belongs now to the Northeast Greenland National Park ...
''(Jónsbú)'' after Norwegian trapper
John Schjelderup Giæver
John Schjelderup Giæver (31 December 1901 – 9 November 1970) was a Norwegian author and polar researcher.
Jónsbú Station in NE Greenland was named after him.
Personal life
He was born in Tromsø in Troms, Norway. He was the son of lawy ...
(1901–1970). The station was destroyed in
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
.
Geography
Queen Margrethe II Land is bounded in the west by the Ejnar Mikkelsen Glacier, in the north by the
Bessel Fjord
Bessel Fjord is a fjord in northeastern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the NE Greenland National Park area. History
The area around the mouth of this fjord was referred to as "Bessel Bay" at the time of the 1869–70 Second German Nor ...
, in the east by the
Greenland Sea
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Shannon Island
Shannon Island ( da, Shannon Ø) is a large island in Northeast Greenland National Park in eastern Greenland, to the east of Hochstetter Foreland, with an area of . It was named by Douglas Charles Clavering on his 1823 expedition for the Royal N ...
across it to the east, and in the south by the
Ardencaple Fjord
Ardencaple Fjord is a fjord in King Christian X Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. History
Ardencaple Fjord was named by Douglas Clavering as "Ardencaple Inlet" in 1823, but the in ...
and the
Bredefjord
Bredefjord is a fjord in northeastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.
Tundra climate prevails in the area of the fjord, the average annual temperature in the area being -14° C . The warmest m ...
.
Adolf S. Jensen Land
Adolf S. Jensen Land ( da, Ad. S. Jensen Land) is a peninsula in the southern limit of King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park, NE Greenland National Park area.
Histor ...
lies to the north of the Bessel Fjord. Haystack is the peninsula's easternmost point.
The peninsula has two distinct parts:
*Norlund Land ''(Nørlund Land)'', the northern section, all mountainous. The name was given by
Lauge Koch
Lauge Koch (5 July 1892 – 5 June 1964) was a Danish geologist and Arctic explorer.
Biography
Lauge Koch was born in 1892 to Karl and Elisabeth Koch. His development as a scientist was greatly influenced by his father's second cousin Johan Pet ...
following aerial observations during the 1931 - 1934 Three-year Expedition to East Greenland in honour of N.E. Nørlund (1885–1980), the director of the Danish Geodesic Institute at that time. In the same manner as with the Norlund Alps further south, Norlund requested that the name should not be printed on official maps until after his death.
*Hochstetter Foreland ''(Hochstetter Forland)'' is the flat part jutting to the south and southeast. The
wetland
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s of Hochstetter Foreland are mostly
tundra
In physical geography, tundra () is a type of biome where tree growth is hindered by frigid temperatures and short growing seasons. The term ''tundra'' comes through Russian (') from the Kildin Sámi word (') meaning "uplands", "treeless moun ...
dotted with small lakes. Since it is an important place for staging geese in their long journeys —such as the Pink-footed goose ''(Anser brachyrhynchus)'', as well as for different species of waterbirds, the area was declared a
Ramsar site
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*** Permanent 8 ha (P)
*** Seasonal Intermittent < 8 ha(Ts)
**
GoogleEarth
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Barth Range Barth may refer to:
Places
* Barth, Germany, a town in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany
**Barth (Amt), administrative subdivision
* Barth Island, Nunavut, Canada
Other uses
* Barth (name), a surname (and list of people with that name)
* Bart ...
Wildspitze
Wildspitze () is the highest mountain in the Ötztal Alps and in North Tyrol, as well as the second highest mountain in Austria after the Großglockner and in terms of prominence (2261 m) is the fourth summit of the Alps and the fifteenth of Euro ...
in the southern area.
See also
*
Erik the Red's Land
Erik the Red's Land ( no, Eirik Raudes Land) was the name given by Norwegians to an area on the coast of eastern Greenland occupied by Norway in the early 1930s. It was named after Erik the Red, the founder of the first Norse or Viking settlemen ...
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SS Buskø
''Buskø'' was a small Norwegian sealer, seized by the U.S. Coast Guard in East Greenland in September 1941, before U.S. entry into the war. She was bringing supplies and rotating personnel for the Norwegian hunting stations there. The episode is ...