Nares Land or Naresland is an island in far northern

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 ...

. The island is named after Polar explorer Sir

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 ...

Geography

The island lies between the Victoria Fjord and the Nordenskjöld Fjord separated from the Freuchen Land Peninsula of the mainland by a narrow sound. Stephenson Island and

John Murray Island John Murray Island, Danish John Murray Ø, is an uninhabited island in the far north of Greenland, in the Northeast Greenland National Park area. Geography John Murray Island is located off the mouth of J.P. Koch Fjord in the Lincoln Sea Linc ...

lie off its northern end. Nares Land is fairly large, with an area of and a shoreline of . It is long and up to wide in its widest place. It has an average elevation of and its highest point is . The area where the island lies has a severe Polar climate and was formerly part of

Avannaa Avannaa, originally Nordgrønland ("North Greenland"), was one of the three counties ( da, amt) of Greenland, until 31 December 2008. The county seat was at the main settlement, Qaanaaq. It was one of the least-densely-populated administrative ...

, originally ''Nordgrønland'' ("North Greenland"), a former county of Greenland until 31 December 2008. The sea around the island is frozen practically the whole year round.

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{{Reflist Uninhabited islands of Greenland Peary Land

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