Ymer Island ( da, Ymer Ø) is an
island
An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...
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 ...
. 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 expeditions to Spitsbergen and Greenland.
[''Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland'', Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland] The journal had been named after the giant
Ymir
In Norse mythology, Ymir (, ), also called Aurgelmir, Brimir, or Bláinn, is the ancestor of all jötnar. Ymir is attested in the ''Poetic Edda'', compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional material, in the ''Prose Edda'', writ ...
, the forefather of the
Jotuns in
Norse mythology.
Geography
The island lies on the southern side of the entrance of
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 the
Antarctic Sound
The Antarctic Sound is a body of water about long and from wide, separating the Joinville Island group from the northeast end of the Antarctic Peninsula. The sound was named by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Otto Nordenskjöld for the ...
separating it from the
Suess Land Peninsula. Ymer Island's northern half forms a peninsula named Gunnar Anderson Land having its narrow isthmus in the west. The fjord between the two halves of the island is named
Dusen Fjord.
Ymer Island has an area of 2,437 km
2. It is mountainous;
Angelin Bjerg, its highest peak, reaches a height of 1900 m. Celsius Bjerg is located at the southeastern end of the island.
The conspicuous
Devil's Castle ''(Teufelsschloss)'' is located on the other side of Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord, off the southern shore of
Cape Petersens, the NW extremity of Ymer Island.
[''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 120]
See also
*
List of islands of Greenland
References
External links
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Uninhabited islands of Greenland
Ymir