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Frænkel Land
Frænkel Land is a peninsula in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. History It was named ''Frænkels Halfö'' by Alfred Gabriel Nathorst, A.G. Nathorst on his 1899 expedition after Knut Frænkel, the Swedish engineer and meteorologist on S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897, Andrée's balloon expedition to the North Pole. Nathorst's expedition was searching for traces of the lost Andrée expedition. Petermann Peak was named by the Second German North Polar Expedition 1869–70 as ''Petermanns Spitze'' in honour of the initiator of the expedition, August Heinrich Petermann. Geography Frænkel Land is bounded by the inner reaches of Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord in the south, with the Akuliarutsip Sermerssua, Nordenskiöld Glacier (Akuliarutsip Sermerssua) in the southwest, the Gregory Glacier and the Magog Nunatak in the west, the Jætte Glacier in the north and northwest, and the Isfjord in the nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petermann Peak
Petermann Peak, (), also known as ''Petermann Fjeld'', ''Petermanns Topp'' and ''Petermann Point'' is a mountain in King Christian X Land, Northeast Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. The area around Petermann Peak is uninhabited. This mountain is located in the high Arctic zone, where Polar climate prevails. The average annual temperature in the area is −16 °C. The warmest month is June, when the average temperature rises to −2 °C, and the coldest is January, with −22 °C. Geography Petermann Peak rises to a height of on a nunatak located the northern side of the Nordenskiold Glacier, East Greenland, Nordenskiöld Glacier, in western Fraenkel Land in the inner Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord. It has a magnificent appearance, dominating the surrounding landscape. The Gregory Glacier flows from its northeastern side into the ''Knækdalen'' valley. The Kalifbjerg (2667 m), Kerberus (c. 2500 m), Gog (c. 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northeast Greenland National Park
Northeast Greenland National Park (, ) is the world's largest national park and the 10th largest protected area (the only larger protected areas consist mostly of sea). Established in 1974, the Northeast Greenland national park expanded to its present size in 1988. It protects of the interior and northeastern coast of Greenland and is larger than the area of Tanzania, but smaller than that of Egypt. This means that the national park is bigger than 166 of the world's 195 countries. It was the first national park to be created in the Kingdom of Denmark and remains Greenland's only national park. It is the northernmost national park in the world and the second-largest by area of any second-level subdivision of any country in the world, trailing only the Qikiqtaaluk Region in Nunavut, Canada. Geography The park shares borders, largely laid out as straight lines, with the Sermersooq municipality in the south and with the Avannaata municipality in the west, partly along the 45° ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Boyd Land
Louise Boyd Land is an area in King Christian X Land, Eastern Greenland. Administratively it lies in the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. The area is remote and uninhabited. Louise Boyd Land was first surveyed by Lauge Koch from the air in 1932 during the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland. It was named after American Arctic explorer Louise Boyd (1887–1972). Geography Louise Boyd Land is a mountainous region. It is bound to the northwest, north and east by the Gerard de Geer Glacier. Beyond the glacier to the northwest lies J. L. Mowinckel Land. In the southeast it is bound by the Isfjord, a branch of Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord, beyond which lies Andrée Land. To the south it is separated from Fraenkel Land by the Jætte Glacier. To the west lies the Hamberg Glacier and a region of numerous nunataks, and beyond them the Greenland ice sheet.Google Earth The highest mountain of Louise Boyd Land is marked as a peak in the Defense Mapping Agency The National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magog Nunatak
Magog may refer to: In religion * Magog (Bible), a grandson of Noah in the Old Testament * Gog and Magog, a Biblical and Quranic pair Fictional people * Magog, of Gog and Magog (statues) in Guildhall, London * Magog ("Magos"), appearing with Gog ("Gos"), in ''Gargantua'' Places in Canada * Magog, Quebec, a town * Magog Township, Quebec, a former township * Magog River, Quebec * Lake Magog, Quebec * Mount Magog, on the border between Alberta and British Columbia Entertainment * Magog (comics), an anti-hero in DC Comics' ''Kingdom Come'' miniseries * ''Magog'', a 1972 novel by Andrew Sinclair * Magog, a fallen angel in the Dresden Files novels by Jim Butcher, first appearing in ''Small Favor'' * Guards of Magog, referenced in the song "Supper's Ready" by Genesis on the 1972 album ''Foxtrot'' * Magog, a fictional race of beings from the TV show "Andromeda" Other uses * , a Royal Canadian Navy frigate during the Second World War * Magog, an unaccepted synonym for a genus of spo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Heinrich Petermann
Augustus Heinrich Petermann (18 April 182225 September 1878) was a German cartographer. Early years Petermann was born in Bleicherode, Germany. When he was 14 years old, he started grammar school in the nearby town of Nordhausen. Despite family pressures to become a clergyman, he pursued his passion for cartography instead. Heinrich Berghaus, with the support of Alexander von Humboldt, started the 'Geographische Kunstschule' (Geographical School of Art) in 1839 in Potsdam, close to Berlin, following the example of the school for engravers at the Archives Militaires Generales in Paris (founded in 1811). During its existence, Berghaus's academy offered only three courses, and only a few students attended: * 1839–1844: August Petermann, Heinrich 'Henry' Lange (1821–1893), and Otto Göcke, who died one year later of tuberculosis. * 1844–1847: Amandus Sturmhöfel (1823–?) and Theodor Schilling. * 1845–1850: Hermann Berghaus (1828–1890), his nephew. Petermann's fat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German North Polar Expedition
The German North Polar Expeditions were a short series of mid-19th century German expeditions to the Arctic. The aim was to explore the North Pole region and to brand the newly united, Prussian-led German Empire as a great power. In 1866, German geographer August Petermann wrote a pamphlet strongly advocating German participation in the international quest for the North Pole, which stimulated a German expedition. First German North Polar Expedition The first expedition took place in the summer of 1868 and was led by Carl Koldewey on the vessel ''Grönland''. The expedition explored some hitherto unknown coastal tracts of northeastern Spitsbergen, but did otherwise not lead to any new scientific knowledge. However, it served as preparation for the second expedition. Second German North Polar Expedition The second expedition consisted of a two-vessel convoy: * – a schooner specifically constructed for the expedition, with a crew of 15 men commanded by Carl Koldewey * ''H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knut Frænkel
Knut Hjalmar Ferdinand Frænkel (14 February 1870 – c. 10 October 1897) was a Swedish engineer and arctic explorer who perished in the Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition, Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 of Salomon August Andrée, S. A. Andrée in 1897. Biography Frænkel was born in Karlstad, Sweden. He was a major in the Road and Waterway Construction Service Corps, and grew up in mountainous Jämtland in the eastern middle part of Sweden, where he acquired an interest in outdoor activities and sports. He later went to the Palmgrenska samskolan, Palmgren School in Stockholm and graduated with a civil engineering degree from the Royal Institute of Technology in 1896, and was preparing himself to enter the Army engineers when the chance came up in 1897 to join S. A. Andrée's planned balloon expedition to the North Pole. The third participant was Nils Strindberg. Frænkel replaced the meteorologist Nils Gustaf Ekholm, who had participated in the preparations but dropped out at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Gabriel Nathorst
Alfred Gabriel Nathorst (7 November 1850 – 20 January 1921) was a Swedish Arctic explorer, geologist, and palaeobotanist. He travelled to Spitzbergen, Svalbard and Greenland where he took an interest in the Arctic floras from the Paleozoic and Mesozoic periods. Life Nathorst was born in Väderbrunn in Sweden to Hjalmar Otto and Maria Charlotta born Georgii, who had moved to Alnarp where Hjalmar served as a professor at the institute of agriculture. Nathorst studied at Malmö before joining the University of Lund in 1868. He spent some time in the University of Uppsala and returned to Lund for his doctorate in 1874. His interest in botany were influenced by Nils Peter Angelin, N. P. Angelin. Nathorst's interest in geology was awakened by Charles Lyell's ''Principles of Geology'' and, at the age of 21, Nathorst visited Lyell in England in 1872. Nathorst was employed at the Geological Survey of Sweden in 1873–84. He was then appointed professor, by royal decree on the 5 Dece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenland
Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. It is by far the largest geographically of three constituent parts of the kingdom; the other two are metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenland are full Danish nationality law, citizens of Denmark and European Union citizenship, of the European Union. Greenland is one of the Special territories of members of the European Economic Area#Overseas countries and territories, Overseas Countries and Territories of the European Union and is part of the Council of Europe. It is the List of islands by area, world's largest island, and lies between the Arctic Ocean, Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Arctic Archipelago, Canadian Arctic Archipelago. It is the location of the northernmost point of land in the world; Kaffeklubben Island off the northern coast is the world's Northernmost point of land, northernmost undisputed point of land—Cape Morris Jesup on the mainland was thought to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Christian X Land
King Christian X Land (; ) is an area of northeastern Greenland. History This area was named after King Christian X of Denmark and Iceland (). At the time of the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland, it is reported that, when Lauge Koch was planning to fly over the region in 1932, he said: The name 'King Christian X Land' was first used on the 1932 1:1 million scale Danish Geodesic Institute map. At that time the area was occupied by Norway and was renamed 'Erik the Red's Land' ''(Eirik Raudes Land)'' but the Permanent Court of International Justice ruled against Norway in 1933 and the country subsequently abandoned its claims. Myggbukta was a Norwegian radio and weather station that operated in the coast intermittently during the 20th century. Geography King Christian X Land stretches above the Arctic Circle between the Scoresby Sound at 70°N and the Bessel Fjord at 76°N. It is bordered by King Christian IX Land on the south, King Frederik VIII Land to the nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
