Frænkel Land is a

peninsula A peninsula is a landform that extends from a mainland and is only connected to land on one side. Peninsulas exist on each continent. The largest peninsula in the world is the Arabian Peninsula. Etymology The word ''peninsula'' derives , . T ...

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 w ...

, East

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 Greenlan ...

. Administratively it is part of the

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 p ...

History

It was named ''Frænkels Halfö'' by A.G. Nathorst on his 1899 expedition after

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. André ...

, the Swedish engineer and meteorologist on 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 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 g ...

1869–70 as ''Petermanns Spitze'' in honour of the initiator of the expedition,

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 fa ...

Geography

Frænkel Land is bounded by the inner reaches of

Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord (; ) is the northernmost fjord system in the NE Greenland National Park area, East Greenland. Geography The Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord has its mouth in the Foster Bay of the Greenland Sea, between Cape Mackenzie at th ...

in the south, with the Nordenskiöld Glacier (Akuliarutsip Sermerssua) in the southwest, the

Gregory Glacier Chavdar Peninsula () is a wide peninsula projecting in northwest direction from Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica. Location Chavdar Peninsula lies on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is bounded by Curtiss Ba ...

and the

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in the west, the Jætte Glacier in the north and northwest, and the

Isfjord Isfjord, meaning 'Ice Fjord' in the Danish language, is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland. The Isfjord is part of the Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord complex''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 120 in ...

in the northeast. 2940 m high

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 a ...

(), one of the highest mountains in Greenland, rises in the southwesternmost part of Frænkel Land at .

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 ...

is located to the northwest.

References

Peninsulas of Greenland {{greenland-geo-stub