Joe Island ( da, Joe Ø) is an island of the

Nares Strait , other_name = , image = Map indicating Nares Strait.png , alt = , caption = Nares Strait (boxed) is between Ellesmere Island and Greenland. , image_bathymetry = , alt_bathymetry ...

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 is ...

. Administratively it belongs to the

Avannaata Avannaata (, da, Det Nordlige, lit=The Northern) is a municipality of Greenland created on 1 January 2018 from the bulk of the former Qaasuitsup municipality. It encompasses an area of 522,700 km2 and has 10,726 inhabitants. Geography I ...

municipality. Joe Island was named after Joe (Ipiirvik or Ebierbing), an

Inuit Inuit (; iu, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, , dual: Inuuk, ) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, ...

guide who accompanied

Charles Francis Hall Charles Francis Hall ( – November 8, 1871) was an American Arctic explorer, best known for his collection of Inuit testimony regarding the 1845 Franklin Expedition and the suspicious circumstances surrounding his death while leading th ...

in the 1871 Polaris expedition.Hannah and Joe on the Map - Nunatsiaq News
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Geography

Joe Island lies in the

Kennedy Channel Kennedy Channel ( da, Kennedykanalen; french: Passage Kennedy; ) is an Arctic sea passage between Greenland and Canada's most northerly island, Ellesmere Island. It was named by Elisha Kane around 1854 during his second Arctic voyage in searc ...

at the limit of the

Hall Basin Hall Basin is an Arctic waterway between Hall Land in Greenland to the east and Canada's northernmost island, Ellesmere Island, to the west. Hall Basin is named after American polar explorer Charles Francis Hall. Geography Hall Basin is loca ...

. It is located about 4 km north of

Cape Morton Cape Morton ( da, Kap Morton) is a headland in North Greenland in Avannaata municipality. The cape is named after Arctic explorer William Morton, who surveyed the Nares Strait area together with Hans Hendrik in June 1854 during the Second Grinn ...

, off the northern end of the

Petermann Peninsula Petermann may refer to: Places Antarctica * Petermann Island * Petermann Ranges (Antarctica) Australia * Petermann, Northern Territory, a locality * Petermann Orogeny, a geological feature * Petermann Ranges (Australia) Greenland *Petermann Gl ...

, to the northwest of the mouth of

Petermann Fjord Petermann Fjord is a fjord in northwestern Greenland. Administratively it marks the boundary between the Avannaata municipality and the Northeast Greenland National Park. The fjord and its glacier are named after German cartographer August Heinri ...

. The waters around the island are icebound most of the year. The island is mushroom-shaped. It has an area of 1.1 km² and an elevation of 100 meters.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute,'' p. 93

Bibliography

George Nares Vice-Admiral Sir George Strong Nares (24 April 1831 – 15 January 1915) was a Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer. He commanded the ''Challenger'' Expedition, and the British Arctic Expedition. He was highly thought of as a leader an ...

''Narrative of a voyage to the Polar Sea during 1875–6 in H.M. ships 'Alert' and 'Discovery

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Fata Morgana, or superior mirage of Joe Island, off the west coast of Arctic Greenland, in Nares Strait
Uninhabited islands of Greenland {{Greenland-geo-stub

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