Ella Island, or Ella Ø, is an island in eastern

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, within Northeast Greenland National Park.

Geography

Ella Island is located at the mouth of

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in the northern end of King Oscar Fjord. To the east lie larger Traill Island and Geographical Society Island. Off its northern end lie

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and Ruth Island. The island has an area of 143.6 km² and a shoreline of 59.6 kilometres. Ella Island is separated from the western shore of the fjord by the Narwhal Sound. Operational Navigation Chart B-9, 1st edition

Operational Navigation Chart B-9, 1st edition

History

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 P ...

had a cabin on the northern side of the island named ''Eagle's nest''. The botanist Thorvald Sørensen spent the years 1931-1935 here. His observations formed the basis for his doctoral thesis in 1941. During

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 opposing ...

, US forces had an installation on the island called ''

Bluie Bluie was the United States military code name for Greenland during World War II. It is remembered by the numbered sequence of base locations identified by the 1941 United States Coast Guard South Greenland Survey Expedition, and subsequently us ...

East Four''. The Sirius Sledge Patrol maintains a small base on the island which is staffed only in summer. In 1971 a meteorite was found on Ella Island,1975Metic..10 1C Page 1
/ref> classified as a L-6 chondrite.

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Photograph of Sirius summer station

Map of Ella Island
showing location of station Uninhabited islands of Greenland {{Greenland-geo-stub

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