Washington Land is a
peninsula
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in northwestern
Greenland
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. It is a part of 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
In ...
municipality.
Washington Land was explored in the 19th century. Traditionally it was one of the hunting grounds of the Inuit, but there are archaeological remains of more permanent human habitation in ancient times.
Geography
Washington Land is located to the west of
Daugaard-Jensen Land, between the
Kane Basin in the west and northwest and
Peabody Bay
Peabody Bay ( da, Peabody Bugt) is a large bay in northwestern Greenland. Administratively it is part of Avannaata municipality. Geography
Peabody Bay is located on the eastern side of the Kane Basin off the western end of the Humboldt Glacier.
Ca ...
in the south.
Crozier Island
Crozier Island () is one of three islands located in the Kennedy Channel section of Nares Strait in the high Arctic. It is part of the Avannaata municipality, Greenland.
Geography
Located to the SW of Franklin Island off Lafayette Bay of the Wa ...
,
Franklin Island and
Hans Island
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are located off
Lafayette Bay
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in its NW shore.
The
Cass Fjord forms the peninsula's southeastern coastline, across which is the
Humboldt Glacier
Humboldt Glacier ( da, Humboldt Gletscher) is one of the major glaciers in northern Greenland.
The glacier is named after German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt and is the widest tidewater glacier in the Northern Hemisphere.
Geography
The Humb ...
and beyond it
Inglefield Land
Inglefield Land is an unglaciated area along the northwestern coast of Greenland. It was named after English explorer Edward Augustus Inglefield.
History
Inglefield Land is noted for its archaeological sites, which show evidence of occupation by ...
. The
Aleqatsiaq Fjord forms the limit of its northern shore.
Cape Jackson is Washington Land's south-westernmost headland and protrudes at the junction of the
Kennedy Channel and the Kane Basin.
[''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute,'' p. 92] The northernmost headland is
Cape Bryan
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History
Capes were common in medieval Europe, especially when combined with a hood in the chaperon. T ...
.
[''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute,'' p. 93]
Washington Land is a largely
unglaciated
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peninsula.
Adams Bjerg
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is located in the middle region.
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See also
*
Washington Land Group
Bibliography
*H.P. Trettin (ed.), ''Geology of the Innuitian Orogen and Arctic Platform of Canada and Greenland''. Geological Survey of Canada (1991)
* Ole Bennike, Jon Feilberg: ''Bird observations in Washington Land, North Greenland, in 1999''. Dansk Orn. Foren. Tidsskr. 98 (2004): 192–195
* Ole Bennike: ''Late Quaternary history of Washington Land, North Greenland''. Boreas, Vol. 31 (2002), 260–272. Oslo.
References
External links
Silurian graptolites from N Greenland - Geological Society
Peninsulas of Greenland
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