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Geographical Society Island () is an island off Foster Bay in northeastern
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 ...
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Geography

The island has an area of 1,717 km2. It is mountainous with Svedenborg Fjeld as the highest point at 1,730 m. To the north lies the mouth of the
Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord ( da, Kejser Franz Josef Fjord; kl, Kangerluk Kejser Franz Joseph) is a major fjord system in the NE Greenland National Park area, East Greenland. Geography The Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord has its mouth in the Foster Ba ...
with
Ymer Island Ymer Island ( da, Ymer Ø) is an island in northeastern Greenland. The island is a part of Northeast Greenland National Park. Ymer Island is named after the Swedish geographical journal ''Ymer'', which published many accounts of Swedish expedit ...
to the NW and smaller Bantekoe Island to the NE in Foster Bay. To the south lies
Traill Island Traill Island ( da, Traill Ø) is a large island in eastern Greenland. It is named after zoologist Thomas Stewart Traill. The island is a part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. Geography Traill Island is a coastal island located in the ...
, separated by a narrow sound, the Vega Sound. In the west, over King Oscar Fjord lies
Ella Island Ella Island, or Ella Ø, is an island in eastern Greenland, within Northeast Greenland National Park. Geography Ella Island is located at the mouth of Kempe Fjord in the northern end of King Oscar Fjord. To the east lie larger Traill Island and ...
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Geology

From west to east, the rocks constituting the island are sandstone of roughly Devonian, Carboniferous and
Cretaceous The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era, as well as the longest. At around 79 million years, it is the longest geological period of ...
age, and some smaller areas with
Triassic The Triassic ( ) is a geologic period and system (stratigraphy), system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago (Year#Abbreviations yr and ya, Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.36 ...
and
Jurassic The Jurassic ( ) is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya. The Jurassic constitutes the middle period of ...
sandstone.


See also

* List of islands of Greenland


References


External links

*{{commonscat inline, Geographical Society Island Uninhabited islands of Greenland