Hall Land is a
peninsula in far northwestern
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 ...
. It is a part of the
Northeast Greenland National Park. Hall Land is one of the coldest places in Greenland.
History
Hall Land was named after
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 ...
, leader of the 1871
Polaris expedition.
The last live caribou reported from Northern Greenland were seen in Hall Land in 1922. They were most likely
Peary caribou
The Peary caribou (''Rangifer arcticus pearyi'') is a subspecies of caribou found in the High Arctic islands of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories in Canada. They are the smallest of the North American caribou, with the females weighing an av ...
that had strayed across the channel from
Ellesmere Island.
[Morten Meldgaard, (1986) ''The Greenland Caribou - Zoogeography, Taxonomy, and Population Dynamics'', p. 44]
Geography
Hall Land is located to the northeast of
Daugaard-Jensen Land and the southwest of
Nyeboe Land
Nyeboe Land ( da, Nyeboes Land) is a peninsula in far northwestern Greenland. It is a part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.
History
Nyeboe Land was named after engineer Marius Nyeboe (1867–1946), chairman of the committee of Knud Rasmu ...
. It is surrounded to the north by the
Robeson Channel of the
Nares Strait
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and to the east by the
Newman Bay.
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 locat ...
, the
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 ...
and the
Petermann Glacier
Petermann Glacier ( da, Petermann Gletsjer) is a large glacier located in North-West Greenland to the east of Nares Strait. It connects the Greenland ice sheet to the Arctic Ocean at 81°10' north latitude, near Hans Island.
The glacier and its ...
mark the western limits of Hall Land. To the south and southeast the peninsula is attached to the mainland and its
ice cap.
The
unglaciated
A glacier (; ) is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires distinguishing features, such as ...
Polaris Foreland lies in the northernmost part of Hall Land beyond the
Haug Range.
high
Kayser Mountain, the highest elevation of the peninsula, is located at the northeastern end of the range.
GoogleEarth
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See also
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Sirius Dog Sled Patrol
The Sirius Dog Sled Patrol ( da, Slædepatruljen Sirius), known informally as ''Siriuspatruljen'' (the Sirius Patrol) and formerly known as ''North-East Greenland Sledge Patrol'' and ''Resolute Dog Sled Patrol'', is an elite Danish naval unit. I ...
References
External links
The late Quaternary history of Hall Land, Northwest GreenlandIce limits in Hall Land
Peninsulas of Greenland
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