Wegener Peninsula () is a

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, East

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. Administratively it is part of the

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History

This peninsula was named during the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland by Arne Noe-Nygaard (1908-1991). He named it after German scientist

Alfred Wegener Alfred Lothar Wegener (; ; 1 November 1880 – November 1930) was a German climatologist, geologist, geophysicist, meteorologist, and polar researcher. During his lifetime he was primarily known for his achievements in meteorology and ...

(1880–1930), who had taken part in the 1906–08

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and the 1912–13

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led by J.P. Koch. Wegener died in 1930 on the

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during the

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led by himself.

Geography

The peninsula is bounded in the northwest by the

Fleming Fjord Fleming Fjord is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively it lies in the Sermersooq Municipality. History This fjord was named "Fleming Inlet" by British explorer William Scoresby (1789 – 1857) after Scottish schol ...

, Kap Brown is the point to the northeast, jutting into the

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to the south of

Cape Biot Cape Biot () is a headland in the Greenland Sea, Northeast Greenland, Sermersooq municipality. History This headland was named "Cape Biot" by William Scoresby (1789 – 1857) in 1822 to honour physicist, astronomer and mathematician Jean Bapt ...

. The

Nathorst Fjord 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 ...

extends on the southeastern side and to the southwest the Wegener Peninsula is connected to the mainland.

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Bibliography

*A. K. Higgins, Jane A. Gilotti, M. Paul Smith (eds.), ''The Greenland Caledonides: Evolution of the Northeast Margin of Laurentia''.

References

External links

Journey across the nunataks of central east Greenland, 1951
Peninsulas of Greenland {{greenland-geo-stub