Traill Island ( da, Traill Ø) is a large island in eastern
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 i ...
. It is named after zoologist
Thomas Stewart Traill
Thomas Stewart Traill (29 October 1781 – 30 July 1862) was a British physician, chemist, meteorologist, zoologist and scholar of medical jurisprudence. He was the grandfather of the physicist, meteorologist and geologist Robert Traill Omon ...
. The island is a part of the
Northeast Greenland National Park.
Geography
Traill Island is a coastal island located in the desolate region of Eastern Greenland on the eastern side of
King Oscar Fjord, northeast of
Davy Sound
The Davy Sound ( da, Davy Sund) is a sound in King Christian X Land, Northeast Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. History
The sound was named and put on the map by William Scoresby (1789 – 1857 ...
.
Geographical Society Island lies to the north, separated by a narrow channel, the
Vega Sound.
The southernmost point of the island is
Cape Simpson.
Dream Bay ''(Drømmebugten)'' is located WNW of the headland and larger
Mountnorris Fjord to the northeast.
The highest summit of the island, a high unnamed peak of the
Svinhufvud Range is one of the
ultra-prominent
An ultra-prominent peak, or Ultra for short, is a mountain summit with a topographic prominence of or more; it is also called a P1500.
The prominence of a peak is the minimum height of climb to the summit on any route from a higher peak, or fr ...
summits of Greenland.
See also
*
List of islands of Greenland
*
List of Ultras of Greenland
References
External links
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Uninhabited islands of Greenland
Islands of Greenland