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Antarctic Havn
Antarctic Haven ( da, Antarctic Havn) is a bay in King Christian X Land, Northeastern Greenland. Administratively it lies in the Northeast Greenland National Park area. History This natural harbour was named ''"Antarctics Hamn"'' by Swedish Arctic explorer Alfred Gabriel Nathorst after his ship ''Antarctic'', which anchored there on 20 August 1899 during the Swedish Greenland Expedition in search of survivors of S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897.''Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland'', Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland J. K. Tornøe advanced the hypothesis that this bay might correspond to the ‘Finnsbúdir’ of the Sagas of Icelanders. In the southern corner of the head of the bay there is a Norwegian hunting hut that originally had been known as "Karlsbak Station". It was built by Jonas Karlsbak and Odd Åmbak in 1930. The hut had a meteorological facility and Karlsbak/LMU was its radio station. The station was active in 1930–38 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pictet Range
Pictet may refer to: Surname * Adolphe Pictet (1799–1875), Swiss linguist * Amé Pictet (1857–1937), Swiss chemist * Benedict Pictet (1655–1724), Genevan theologian * Charles Pictet de Rochemont (1755–1824), Swiss politician * Francis Pictet (born 1866), Australian cricketer * François Jules Pictet de la Rive (1809–1872), Swiss zoologist and palaeontologist * Jean Pictet (1914–2002), Swiss citizen, jurist, legal practitioner, honorary doctorate * Marc-Auguste Pictet (1752–1825), Swiss physicist * Marion MacMillan Pictet, American heiress * Raoul Pictet (1846–1929), Swiss physicist, one of the first two people to liquefy oxygen Other uses * Pictet (crater), crater on the Moon, named after Marc-Auguste Pictet * Pictet-Gams isoquinoline synthesis, variation on the Bischler–Napieralski reaction producing Isoquinoline * Pictet-Hubert reaction, producing Phenanthridine from the 2-aminobiphenyl – formaldehyde adduct and zinc chloride * Pictet–Spengler reaction, chemi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 settlements in Greenland in the 10th century. The Permanent Court of International Justice ruled against Norway in 1933, and the country subsequently abandoned its claims. The area had once had an Inuit population, but the last member was seen in 1823 by Douglas Clavering in Clavering Island. By 1931, that part of Greenland was uninhabited and included only three main Norwegian stations (Jonsbu, Myggbukta and Antarctic Havn) and numerous smaller ones. Origin of the claim The first European settlement in Greenland was established by Norse colonists from Iceland around the year 1000. There were two main Norse settlements on Greenland, but both were on the southwestern coast of the island, far away from the area that later became Erik the Red's La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jónsbú Station
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. The site is located in southern Hochstetter Foreland on the western side of Peters Bay, northeast of the mouth of Ardencaple Fjord, about from Cape Klinkerfues.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 124 History The station was built in 1932 by John Giæver's expedition, about northeast of the mouth of Ardencaple Fjord. It was named ''"Jónsbú"'' after Norwegian journalist John Schjelderup Giæver (1901–1970), who lived as a hunter and trapper in East Greenland from 1929 to 1934. The station had also been known as ''"Norsk Petersbugt Station"''. Together with Myggbukta, as well as Storfjord, Torgilsbu and Finnsbu further south, Jonsbu became part of the Norwegian contribution to the Internati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Fjords Of Greenland
This is a list of the most important fjords of Greenland:In Northern Greenland, a large area made up entirely of fjords; therefore Peary Land above not a fjord but a fjord area.In Northeastern Greenland, a large area made up entirely of fjords; therefore is the Scoresby Sund above not a fjord but a fjord area. Fjords * Alanngorsuaq Fjord * Aleqatsiaq Fjord * Alluitsup Kangerlua (Lichtenau Fjord) * Ameralik Fjord * Amerloq Fjord * Ammassalik Fjord * Ananap Kangertiva Kiateq * Anaanap Kangertiva Oqqorseq (Depot Fjord) * Anorituup Kangerlua **Kangikitsua * Attertia * Ardencaple Fjord ** Bredefjord ** Smallefjord * Arfersiorfik Fjord * Avaqqat Kangerluat **Puiattoq **Qassialik * Bernstorff Fjord * Bessel Fjord * Bessel Fjord, NW Greenland * Bowdoin Fjord * Carlsberg Fjord (Kangerterajitta Itterterilaa) * Cass Fjord * Danmark Fjord * De Dodes Fjord * Deichmann Fjord * Dijmphna Sound ** Hekla Sound * Eqalugaarsuit Fjord * Fleming Fjord * Foulk Fjord * Frederi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In Memory H Ingstad
IN, In or in may refer to: Places * India (country code IN) * Indiana, United States (postal code IN) * Ingolstadt, Germany (license plate code IN) * In, Russia, a town in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast Businesses and organizations * Independent Network, a UK-based political association * Indiana Northeastern Railroad (Association of American Railroads reporting mark) * Indian Navy, a part of the India military * Infantry, the branch of a military force that fights on foot * IN Groupe , the producer of French official documents * MAT Macedonian Airlines (IATA designator IN) * Nam Air (IATA designator IN) Science and technology * .in, the internet top-level domain of India * Inch (in), a unit of length * Indium, symbol In, a chemical element * Intelligent Network, a telecommunication network standard * Intra-nasal (insufflation), a method of administrating some medications and vaccines * Integrase, a retroviral enzyme Other uses * ''In'' (album), by the Outsiders, 196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operational Navigation Chart B-9, 1st Edition
An operational definition specifies concrete, replicable procedures designed to represent a construct. In the words of American psychologist S.S. Stevens (1935), "An operation is the performance which we execute in order to make known a concept." For example, an operational definition of "fear" (the construct) often includes measurable physiologic responses that occur in response to a perceived threat. Thus, "fear" might be operationally defined as specified changes in heart rate, galvanic skin response, pupil dilation, and blood pressure. Overview An operational definition is designed to model or represent a concept or theoretical definition, also known as a construct. Scientists should describe the operations (procedures, actions, or processes) that define the concept with enough specificity such that other investigators can replicate their research. Operational definitions are also used to define system states in terms of a specific, publicly accessible process of preparation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dry Lake
A dry lake bed, also known as a playa, is a basin or depression that formerly contained a standing surface water body, which disappears when evaporation processes exceeds recharge. If the floor of a dry lake is covered by deposits of alkaline compounds, it is known as an alkali flat. If covered with salt, it is known as a '' salt flat.'' Terminology If its basin is primarily salt, then a dry lake bed is called a '' salt pan'', ''pan'', or ''salt flat'' (the latter being a remnant of a salt lake). ''Hardpan'' is the dry terminus of an internally drained basin in a dry climate, a designation typically used in the Great Basin of the western United States. Another term for dry lake bed is ''playa''. The Spanish word ''playa'' () literally means "beach". Dry lakes are known by this name in some parts of Mexico and the western United States. This term is used e.g. on the Llano Estacado and other parts of the Southern High Plains and is commonly used to address paleolake sediment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mesters Vig
Mestersvig, also called Mesters Vig, is a military outpost located in Scoresby Land, on the southwestern shore of Davy Sound in King Christian X Land, NE Greenland. It has a 1,800 m gravel airstrip . This airport is located near the Stauning Alps mountainous area. History From 1956 to 1963, Mestersvig was a zinc and lead mine. Later Mestersvig used to be the only permanent station in the Northeast Greenland National Park but all of the 1986 population of 40 has been split up into the three newer Northeast Greenland National Park research stations ( Danmarkshavn, Nord and Daneborg) except a permanent population of two people, although tourists visit the station occasionally. In September 2015, as part of the newest defence agreement to increase the enforcement of sovereignty in Greenland, Mission Mestersvig was executed. The mission was to test the responsiveness of the military of Denmark and if the equipment could handle winter weather. HDMS ''Thetis'', parts of the Guar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Syenit
A cape is a clothing accessory or a sleeveless outer garment which drapes the wearer's back, arms, and chest, and connects at the neck. History Capes were common in medieval Europe, especially when combined with a hood in the chaperon. They have had periodic returns to fashion - for example, in nineteenth-century Europe. Roman Catholic clergy wear a type of cape known as a ferraiolo, which is worn for formal events outside a ritualistic context. The cope is a liturgical vestment in the form of a cape. Capes are often highly decorated with elaborate embroidery. Capes remain in regular use as rainwear in various military units and police forces, in France for example. A gas cape was a voluminous military garment designed to give rain protection to someone wearing the bulky gas masks used in twentieth-century wars. Rich noblemen and elite warriors of the Aztec Empire would wear a tilmàtli; a Mesoamerican cloak/cape used as a symbol of their upper status. Cloth and clo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Oscar Fjord
King Oscar Fjord ( da, Kong Oscar Fjord) is a fjord in East Greenland, marking the northern border of the Scoresby Land Peninsula. It was named by A.G. Nathorst on his 1899 expedition as ''Konung Oscars Fjord'' for Oscar II, King of Sweden from 1872 to 1907 and of Norway from 1872 until 1905. Geography King Oscar Fjord is a major fjord system in NE Greenland. The main fjord is 10–25 km wide, bounded by Traill Island and Geographical Society Island in the east. In the inner and northern end of the fjord lies Ella Island. The Davy Sound at the southeastern end connects with the Greenland Sea after extending for about 20 km in a NW/SE direction.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 118 Lyell Land forms the western boundary and Scoresby Land with the Stauning Alps lies to the southwest. The Antarctic Sound separates the Suess Land Peninsula and Ymer Island and connects with the Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord system to the north. Other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
