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Odinland
Odinland ( da, Odin Land), also ''Odinsland'' in the Defense Mapping Agency Greenland Navigation charts, is a peninsula in the King Frederick VI Coast, southeastern Greenland. It is a part of the Sermersooq municipality. The peninsula is fully exposed to the influence of the Greenland Ice Sheet. In spite of the proximity of the coast and despite being located south of the Arctic Circle, an ice cap climate prevails in Odinland. History Arctic explorer Wilhelm August Graah of the Danish Navy explored this area in 1828–30, during an expedition in search of the legendary Eastern Norse Settlement and named this lonely peninsula after Odin. A large icy coastal stretch was named "Colberger Heide" by Graah, owing to its shore being lined with active glaciers and ice cliffs. This was one of the most dangerous stretches of the shore for the Southeast-Greenland Inuit that used to live hunting and fishing along the coast.Spencer Apollonio, ''Lands that Hold One Spellbound: A Story o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kangerajiip Apusiia
Odinland ( da, Odin Land), also ''Odinsland'' in the Defense Mapping Agency Greenland Navigation charts, is a peninsula in the King Frederick VI Coast, southeastern Greenland. It is a part of the Sermersooq municipality. The peninsula is fully exposed to the influence of the Greenland Ice Sheet. In spite of the proximity of the coast and despite being located south of the Arctic Circle, an ice cap climate prevails in Odinland. History Arctic explorer Wilhelm August Graah of the Danish Navy explored this area in 1828–30, during an expedition in search of the legendary Eastern Norse Settlement and named this lonely peninsula after Odin. A large icy coastal stretch was named "Colberger Heide" by Graah, owing to its shore being lined with active glaciers and ice cliffs. This was one of the most dangerous stretches of the shore for the Southeast-Greenland Inuit that used to live hunting and fishing along the coast.Spencer Apollonio, ''Lands that Hold One Spellbound: A Story of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sleipner Glacier
Sleipner Glacier ( da, Sleipner Gletscher), is a glacier in eastern Greenland Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland i .... This glacier was named after Sleipnir, Sleipner, Odin's mythical eight-legged flying horse. Geography The Sleipner Glacier originates in central Odinland, a heavily glaciated peninsula. It flows westward just west of Ensom Majestaet ('Lonely Majesty'), Odinland's highest point. The glacier is roughly east–west oriented and joins the left side of the Fimbul Glacier just north of its terminus in the Bernstorff Fjord (Kangertittivaq).GoogleEarth Together the Sleipner and Fimbul glaciers produce massive amounts of ice that blocks the fjord.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 102 Bibliography''Climate-related glacier fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fimbul Glacier
Fimbul Glacier ( da, Fimbulgletscher), is a glacier in eastern Greenland. This glacier was named after an Old Norse word for "giant" or "mighty". Geography The Fimbul Glacier originates in western Odinland, a glaciated peninsula. It flows southward from the area of the Ensomme Skraent ('Lonely Slope'), and joins the Sleipner Glacier from its left side just north of its terminus in the Bernstorff Fjord (Kangertittivaq) and west of the Brages Range. GoogleEarth Alfheimbjerg is a mountain further south, rising between the western side of the Fimbul Glacier terminus and the terminus of the Bernstorff Glacier Bernstorff Glacier ( da, Bernstorff Gletscher, also referred to as ''A.P. Bernstorf Gletscher''), is a glacier in the King Frederick VI Coast, Sermersooq, southeastern Greenland. Like the fjord, this glacier was named after Danish statesman Andr ... . Together the Sleipner and Fimbul glaciers produce massive amounts of ice that blocks the fjord.''Prostar Sailing Direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ensom Majestaet
Ensom Majestaet (meaning "Solitary Majesty" in Danish) is the highest mountain in Odinland, SE Greenland. Geography This mountain is a nunatak that rises roughly in the middle of the peninsula, east of the westward-flowing Sleipner Glacier and a little west of the Gungnir Ice Cap. See also *List of mountains in Greenland This is a list of mountains in Greenland. List For each mountain, the municipality in which it is located is given, along with coordinates indicating the approximate centre of the mountain (follow the link to see satellite images of the location ... * List of nunataks References External linksNot so green - Odin Land Nunataks of Greenland Ensom Odinland {{Greenland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Møsting
Cape Møsting ( da, Kap Møsting) is a headland in the North Atlantic Ocean, southeast Greenland, Kujalleq municipality. History Cape Møsting was named by Lieutenant Wilhelm August Graah in 1829 during his East Coast expedition. Graah took a latitude observation at the headland and named it after Johan Sigismund von Møsting. One of the umiak women rowers of Graah's party gave birth to twins at the cape. The Inuit babies died shortly after delivery and were buried in a cleft of the rocks of the two small islands off the SW side of Cape Møsting. Graah named these islands ''"Tvillingøen"'', Twin Islands, after the dead twins. Geography Cape Møsting is located at the southeastern end of Odinland. It is a steep and prominent headland on the northern side of the mouth of Bernstorff Fjord. Usually great masses of icebergs lie near the fjord entrance to the south of the cape making navigation along the shore difficult. Dangerous eddies and whirlpools form within the bank of iceber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernstorff Fjord
Bernstorff Fjord ( da, Bernstorff Isfjord; kl, Kangertittivaq) is a fjord in King Frederick VI Coast, eastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Sermersooq municipality. The fjord was named after Danish statesman Andreas Peter Bernstorff. This fjord is almost always blocked by heavy ice. History One of the coastal islands, Igdluluarssuk (Sattiaatteq) at the entrance of the fjord on its southern side, had had the northernmost Inuit settlement of the southern group on the east coast in the recent past. Arctic explorer Wilhelm August Graah of the Danish Navy explored this area in 1828–30, during an expedition in search of the legendary Eastern Norse Settlement. Geography To the east the Bernstorff Fjord opens into the Irminger Sea (North Atlantic Ocean). It separates the Odinland Peninsula with its SE end, Cape Møsting to the north,''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 102 from the Thorland Peninsula and Cape Moltke to the sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Frederick VI Coast
King Frederick VI Coast ( da, Kong Frederik VI Kyst) is a major geographic division of Greenland. It comprises the coastal area of Southeastern Greenland in Sermersooq and Kujalleq municipalities fronting the Irminger Sea of the North Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered by King Christian IX Land on the north and the Greenland Ice Sheet to the west. Named after King Frederick VI of Denmark-Norway, the coast stretches for about south of the Arctic Circle. It is characterized by a succession of short fjords, steep mountains and small coastal islands. There is a narrow belt of ice-free land between the shore and the Inland ice cap, interrupted by active glaciers reaching the shore with the ice limit varying seasonally from year to year. Owing to the movement of pack ice carried by the East Greenland Current and frequent gale-force winds that sweep down from the Greenland ice cap, it is mostly very difficult to approach or navigate along the coast by ship. History This area was in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umivik Bay
Umivik Bay ( da, Umivik Bugt), also known as ''Umiivik'' and ''Umerik'', is a bay in King Frederick VI Coast, southeastern Greenland. It is part of the Sermersooq municipality. Unlike the jagged and forbidding appearance of most fjord systems in East Greenland, the Umivik area has a relatively gentle shape. Here the massive Greenland ice sheet comes down to the shore in smooth, even undulations and the landscape looks unbroken, with only few glimpses of bare rock.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 102 Owing to this smoothness, Umivik Bay was chosen as launching point for westward overland crossings, including the pioneering 1888 Greenland venture by Fridtjof Nansen. Geography Umivik Bay is located between the Fridtjof Nansen Peninsula to the north and the Odinland Peninsula to the south. It includes a sound and a fjord and has a few large islands, the largest of which is Upernattivik (Upernarsuak) lying squarely in the middle of the in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umiiviip Kangertiva
Umivik Bay ( da, Umivik Bugt), also known as ''Umiivik'' and ''Umerik'', is a bay in King Frederick VI Coast, southeastern Greenland. It is part of the Sermersooq municipality. Unlike the jagged and forbidding appearance of most fjord systems in East Greenland, the Umivik area has a relatively gentle shape. Here the massive Greenland ice sheet comes down to the shore in smooth, even undulations and the landscape looks unbroken, with only few glimpses of bare rock.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 102 Owing to this smoothness, Umivik Bay was chosen as launching point for westward overland crossings, including the pioneering 1888 Greenland venture by Fridtjof Nansen. Geography Umivik Bay is located between the Fridtjof Nansen Peninsula to the north and the Odinland Peninsula to the south. It includes a sound and a fjord and has a few large islands, the largest of which is Upernattivik (Upernarsuak) lying squarely in the middle of the inn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorland
Thorland ( da, Thors Land) is a peninsula in the King Frederick VI Coast, southeastern Greenland. It is a part of the Sermersooq municipality. History One of the coastal islands, Igdluluarssuk (Sattiaatteq) at the entrance of the fjord on its southern side, had had the northernmost Inuit settlement of the southern group on the east coast in the recent past. Arctic explorer Wilhelm August Graah of the Danish Navy explored this area in 1828–30, during an expedition in search of the legendary Eastern Norse Settlement and named this peninsula after Thor. In 1931 Norway sent two expeditions to establish hunting, meteorological and radio stations in Southeast Greenland. Founded by Finn Devold, on Ship ''Heimen'' from Tromsø, a Norwegian station was built in southern Thorland and named Finnsbu. The other expedition, led by Ole Mortensen, went to Storfjord ( Kangerlussuaq Fjord) on ship ''Signalhorn'' and built a hut there. Since hunting there was poor, Mortensen moved with his men ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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