Roosevelt Land ( da, Roosevelts Land) is a peninsula in far northern

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The territory was named by Robert Peary after US President

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Geography

Roosevelt Land is located in western

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, to the north of

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, separated from it by the Harder Fjord, To the west it is limited by the Conger Sound, and to the east by

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. The northernmost headland is

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and the westernmost

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, both on the

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shore. The peninsula is mountainous, deeply cut by

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areas. The

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runs across Roosevelt Land eastwards. The main glacier is the

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The highest point is a summit found in the southern zone of the central part of the peninsula.Map_of_part_of_Ellesmere_Island
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, and reaching all the way to Johannes V. Jensen Land in the east.W. E. Davies, ''Landscape of Northern Greenland'' 1972

Bibliography

*H.P. Trettin (ed.), ''Geology of the Innuitian Orogen and Arctic Platform of Canada and Greenland.'' 1991

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The Earliest Annelids: Lower Cambrian Polychaetes from the Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, Peary Land, North GreenlandGreenland Pilot
Peninsulas of Greenland Peary Land {{greenland-geo-stub

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