Mylius-Erichsen Land is a peninsula in

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, northeastern

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. Administratively it belongs to the NE Greenland National Park area.

Geography

Mylius-Erichsen Land is bounded in the north by the Independence Fjord, in the west by the

Hagen Fjord Hagen Fjord is a fjord in north-eastern Greenland. It was named after Niels Peter Høeg Hagen, the cartographer of the main exploration team of the ill-fated Denmark expedition. Geography It opens into the southern shore of the Independence Fjord ...

and the Hagen Glacier, in the east by the Danmark Fjord and in the south by the Greenland Ice Sheet. There is no large calving

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at the head of the Danmark Fjord, but all surrounding fjords are icebound the whole year round. The northernmost headland is

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and the northern section of the peninsula appears in some maps as "Valdemar Glückstadt Land."

History

Mylius-Erichsen Land was named by the 1906-1908 Denmark expedition after its ill-fated leader Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen.''Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland'', Geological Survey of Denmark (GEUS)

References

Peninsulas of Greenland {{greenland-geo-stub