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Haug Range
The Haug Range () is a mountain range in far northwestern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of Avannaata municipality. The range is located in Hall Land, one of the coldest places in Greenland. This mountain chain was named after Ivar Haug, who compiled the first Gazetteer of Greenland. The area of the range is characterized by Tundra climate. Geography The Haug Range is an up to almost 1,100 m high little glaciated mountain range in Hall Land. It runs roughly from east to west across the peninsula, from the shores of the Nares Strait to the shores of the Newman Bay, separating the unglaciated Polaris Foreland in the north from the southern part of Hall Land. high Kayser Mountain, the highest elevation of the range, is located at its northeastern end. The area of the Haug Range is uninhabited.Google Earth Pentamerus fossils dating back to the Lower Silurian have been found in this mountain range. They belong to the Hauge Bjerge Formation. See also *List of mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nares Strait
Nares Strait (; ) is a waterway between Ellesmere Island and Greenland that connects the northern part of Baffin Bay in the Atlantic Ocean with the Lincoln Sea in the Arctic Ocean. From south to north, the strait includes Smith Sound, Kane Basin, Kennedy Channel, Hall Basin and Robeson Channel. Nares Strait has a nearly permanent current from the north, powered by the Beaufort Gyre, making it harder to traverse for ships coming from the south. In 1964, its name was agreed by the Danish (''Stednavneudvalget'', now ''Stednavnenævnet'') and Canadian governments. The name derives from the British naval officer George Strong Nares. The strait and neighbouring waters are usually hazardous for navigation and shipping. Icebergs and pack ice are present year-round; in an extreme example during 1962–64, a by ice island drifted southward from the Lincoln Sea through the Nares and Davis Straits to the Labrador Sea.. During August, however, it is usually navigable by icebrea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glaciated
A glacier (; or ) is a persistent body of dense ice, a form of rock, that is constantly moving downhill 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 crevasses and seracs, as it slowly flows and deforms under stresses induced by its weight. As it moves, it abrades rock and debris from its substrate to create landforms such as cirques, moraines, or fjords. Although a glacier may flow into a body of water, it forms only on land“Glacier, N., Pronunciation.” Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford UP, June 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/7553486115. Accessed 25 Jan. 2025. and is distinct from the much thinner sea ice and lake ice that form on the surface of bodies of water. On Earth, 99% of glacial ice is contained within vast ice sheets (also known as "continental glaciers") in the polar regions, but glaciers may be found in mountain ranges on every contin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mountain Ranges Of Greenland
This is a list of mountain ranges of Greenland. List by alphabetical order * Alángup Qáqai, located in SW Disko Island * Albert Heim Range ''(Albert Heim Bjerge)'', located in northern Hudson Land, north of Promenadedal. * Alexandrine Range ''(Alexandrine Bjerge)'', rising above the southeastern shore of Denmark Fjord. * Amitsorssûp Qulâ, located south of the Ameralik Fjord in West Greenland. * Barth Range ''(Barth Bjerge)'', located in Queen Margrethe II Land. * Borgtinderne, a long nunatak with multiple peaks east of the Ejnar Mikkelsen Range. Highest peak Borgetinde. * Brages Range ''(Brages Bjerge)'', located at the western end of Odinland in a nunatak between the Fimbul and Sleipner glaciers at the head of the Bernstorff Fjord. * Crown Prince Frederick Range ''(Kronprins Frederik Bjerge)'', very long range of nunataks stretching southwest of Kangerlussuaq Fjord, East Greenland. * Daly Range ''(Daly Bjerge)'', a subrange of the Roosevelt Range located in Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hauge Bjerge Formation
The Hauge Bjerge Formation is a formation of the Peary Land Group in Greenland. It preserves fossils dating back to the Silurian period. See also * List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Greenland * Haug Range The Haug Range () is a mountain range in far northwestern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of Avannaata municipality. The range is located in Hall Land, one of the coldest places in Greenland. This mountain chain was named after I ... References * Silurian Greenland {{Silurian-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pentamerus
:''The gall mite genus ''Pentamerus'', established by Roivainen in 1951, is invalid and needs to be renamed. Until this happens, use '' Pentamerus (mite)''.'' ''Pentamerus'' (meaning "five thighs") is a prehistoric genus of brachiopods that lived from the Silurian to the Middle Devonian in Asia, Europe, and North America. See also * Pentamerus Range Sources * ''Fossils'' (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 82) External links''Pentamerus''in the Paleobiology Database The Paleobiology Database (PBDB) is an online resource for information on the distribution and classification of fossil animals, plants, and microorganisms. History The Paleobiology Database originated in the NCEAS-funded Phanerozoic Marine Pale ... Rhynchonellata Prehistoric brachiopod genera Silurian brachiopods Devonian brachiopods Paleozoic brachiopods of Asia Paleozoic brachiopods of Europe Paleozoic brachiopods of North America Silurian first appearances Middle Devonian genus extinction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Google Earth
Google Earth is a web mapping, web and computer program created by Google that renders a 3D computer graphics, 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery. The program maps the Earth by superimposition, superimposing satellite images, aerial photography, and geographic information system, GIS data onto a 3D globe, allowing users to see cities and landscapes from various angles. Users can explore the globe by entering addresses and coordinates, or by using a Computer keyboard, keyboard or computer mouse, mouse. The program can also be downloaded on a smartphone or Tablet computer, tablet, using a touch screen or stylus to navigate. Users may use the program to add their own data using Keyhole Markup Language and upload them through various sources, such as forums or blogs. Google Earth is able to show various kinds of images overlaid on the surface of the Earth and is also a Web Map Service client. In 2019, Google revealed that Google Earth covers more than 97 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polaris Foreland
Hall Land is a peninsula in far northwestern Greenland. 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, 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 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. It is surrounded to the north by the Robeson Channel of the Nares Strait and to the east by the Newman Bay. Hall Basin, the Petermann Fjord and the Petermann Glacier 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 Polaris Foreland lies in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unglaciated
A glacier (; or ) is a persistent body of dense ice, a form of rock, that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its Ablation#Glaciology, ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires distinguishing features, such as crevasses and seracs, as it slowly flows and deforms under stresses induced by its weight. As it moves, it abrades rock and debris from its substrate to create landforms such as cirques, moraines, or fjords. Although a glacier may flow into a body of water, it forms only on land“Glacier, N., Pronunciation.” Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, Oxford UP, June 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/7553486115. Accessed 25 Jan. 2025. and is distinct from the much thinner sea ice and lake ice that form on the surface of bodies of water. On Earth, 99% of glacial ice is contained within vast ice sheets (also known as "continental glaciers") in the polar regions, but glaciers may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newman Bay
Newman Bay () or Newman Fjord is a fjord in northern Greenland. To the northwest, the fjord opens into the Robeson Channel of the Lincoln Sea. It is a part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. There are muskoxen near the shores of the fjord.Euphemia Vale Blake (ed.), ''Journey to the Arctic: The True Story of the Disastrous 1871 Mission to the North Pole'', p. 180 History The fjord was named after the Reverend Dr. Newman of Washington, D.C. in September 1871 during the Polaris expedition by Charles Francis Hall. It would be the last place Hall named in Greenland, for he was taken ill shortly thereafter and died in November the same year. Clements R. Markham, ''The Lands of Silence'', p. 300 Geography Newman fjord is roughly SE/NW oriented and opens to the northwest. To the west lies Hall Land with the Polaris Foreland in the shore near its mouth and to the east Nyeboe Land, both largely unglaciated areas. Nina Bang Mountain rises to the east of the fjord and the Haug Range, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tundra Climate
The tundra climate is a polar climate sub-type located in high latitudes and high mountains. It is classified as ET according to the Köppen climate classification. It is a climate which at least one month has an average temperature high enough to melt snow (), but no month with an average temperature in excess of . If the climate occurs at high elevations, it is known as alpine climate. Despite the potential diversity of climates in the ''ET'' category involving precipitation, extreme temperatures, and relative wet and dry seasons, this category is rarely subdivided. Rainfall and snowfall are generally slight due to the low vapor pressure of water in the chilly atmosphere, but as a rule potential evapotranspiration is extremely low, allowing soggy terrain of swamps and bogs even in places that get precipitation typical of deserts of lower and middle latitudes. The amount of native tundra biomass depends more on the local temperature than the amount of precipitation. Tundra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenland
Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. It is by far the largest geographically of three constituent parts of the kingdom; the other two are metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenland are full Danish nationality law, citizens of Denmark and European Union citizenship, of the European Union. Greenland is one of the Special territories of members of the European Economic Area#Overseas countries and territories, Overseas Countries and Territories of the European Union and is part of the Council of Europe. It is the List of islands by area, world's largest island, and lies between the Arctic Ocean, Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Arctic Archipelago, Canadian Arctic Archipelago. It is the location of the northernmost point of land in the world; Kaffeklubben Island off the northern coast is the world's Northernmost point of land, northernmost undisputed point of land—Cape Morris Jesup on the mainland was thought to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivar Haug
Ivar (Old Norse ''Ívarr'') is a Scandinavian masculine given name. Another variant of the name is Iver, which is more common in Norway. The Old Norse name has several possible etymologies. In North Germanic phonology, several of the elements common to Germanic names became homophonous. The first element ''Ívarr'' may contain '' yr'' "yew" and ''-arr'' (from ''hari'', "warrior"), but it may have become partly conflated with Ingvar, and possibly Joar (element '' jó'' "horse"). The second element ''-arr'' may alternatively also be from ''geir'' "spear" or it may be ''var'' "protector". citing Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002), Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005), Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995), Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979). The name was adopted into |
