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Holm Land
Holm Land ( da, Holms Land), sometimes referred to as "Hahn Land", is a peninsula in King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the NE Greenland National Park area. This peninsula was named by the 1906-1908 Denmark expedition after Danish naval officer and Arctic explorer Gustav Frederik Holm.''Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland'', Geological Survey of Denmark (GEUS) Geography Holm Land is bounded in the north by the Ingolf Fjord, on the other side of which rises Amdrup Land, and in the south the Hekla Sound and the Dijmphna Sound. To the west it is attached to the mainland and to the east lies the Greenland Sea. Hanseraq Fjord is a small fjord in the eastern coast. To the south lie Lynn Island and larger Hovgaard Island. A great part of inner Holm Land is covered by an ice cap. Eskimonæsset is the peninsula's northeasternmost point where there are archaeological remains of ancient Inuit dwellings found by the ill-f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingolf Fjord
Ingolf Fjord ( da, Ingolfs Fjord), also known as Ingolf Sound, is a fjord of Greenland's northeastern coast in northern King Frederick VIII Land.GoogleEarth The fjord was named by the 1906-1908 Denmark expedition led by Lauge Koch which mapped Greenland's north coast between Cape York (Greenland), Cape York and Denmark Sound. It was named after 544-ton schooner ''Ingolf'', used for hydrographic surveys in the waters off Greenland in 1879 and 1895; this vessel had also been used by Andreas Peter Hovgaard on a voyage to the West Indies in 1884–85. Geography Ingolf Fjord is located between Holm Land to the south and Amdrup Land to the north at the southern end of the Crown Prince Christian Land peninsula. On its eastern end lie the Wegener Islands, near its mouth in the Greenland Sea. Between Cape Jungersen to the north and to the south. On the fjord's southern shore lie the Princess Caroline-Mathilde Alps and the terminus of the Spaerre Brae glacier (), about from its mouth.''Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amdrup Land
Amdrup Land is a land area in the Crown Prince Christian Land peninsula, King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the NE Greenland National Park area. Numerous fossils of the Carboniferous and Palaeozoic periods have been found in Amdrup Land, including fossil algae and fishes. Geography Amdrup Land is largely unglaciated. It is bound in the north by the large Flade Isblink ice cap, in the east by Antarctic Bay of the Greenland Sea and in the south by the Ingolf Fjord, on the other side of which rises Holm Land. The Henrik Krøyer Holme island group lies off its southeastern point. To the northwest rise the Princess Elizabeth Alps. Google Earth History Amdrup Land was named by the 1906-1908 Denmark expedition after Georg Carl Amdrup, a member of the expedition committee. The 1938–39 Mørkefjord expedition found numerous stone mounds which proved to be ancient Inuit meat caches at a place named Kødgravene, in the northeastern shore of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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North is one of the four compass points or cardinal directions. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west. ''North'' is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. Etymology The word ''north'' is related to the Old High German ''nord'', both descending from the Proto-Indo-European unit *''ner-'', meaning "left; below" as north is to left when facing the rising sun. Similarly, the other cardinal directions are also related to the sun's position. The Latin word ''borealis'' comes from the Greek '' boreas'' "north wind, north", which, according to Ovid, was personified as the wind-god Boreas, the father of Calais and Zetes. ''Septentrionalis'' is from ''septentriones'', "the seven plow oxen", a name of ''Ursa Major''. The Greek ἀρκτικός (''arktikós'') is named for the same constellation, and is the source of the English word ''Arctic''. Other languages have other derivations. For example, in Lezgian, ''kefer'' can mean bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GoogleEarth
Google Earth is a computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery. The program maps the Earth by superimposing satellite images, aerial photography, and 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 keyboard or mouse. The program can also be downloaded on a smartphone or 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 has revealed that Google Earth now covers more than 97 percent of the world, and has captured 10 million miles of Street View imagery. In addition to Earth navigation, Google Earth provides a ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mallemuk Mountain
Mallemuk Mountain ( da, Mallemukfjeldet) is a mountain plateau with seaward cliffs in NE Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. This mountain was named by the ill-fated Denmark expedition after the numerous colonies of northern fulmars breeding in the cliffs. Geography Mallemuk Mountain is located by the Dijmphna Sound in the southeastern shore of Holm Land, in the King Frederick VIII Land area of northeastern Greenland. The plateau is about in height and there are small glaciers on its sides, the Depot Glacier and the Mallemuk Glacier. Its cliffs are precipitous and rising steeply from the shore up to about .Mott T. Greene . ''Alfred Wegener: Science, Exploration, and the Theory of Continental Drift'', p. 136 For former expeditions to remote NE Greenland Mallemuk Mountain was useful as a landmark for its conspicuous cliffs. The name, however, was used inconsistently and there was a confusion with nearby Depot Fjeld at . Although t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Caroline Mathilde Alps
The Princess Caroline-Mathilde Alps ( da, Prinsesse Caroline Mathilde Alper) are a mountain range system in the Holm Land Peninsula, King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. The range was named by the 1938–39 Mørkefjord Expedition after Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark (1912-1995), wife of Prince Knud of Denmark (1900-1976), patron of the expedition. Geography The Princess Caroline-Mathilde Alps run from north to south across the western half of the Holm Land peninsula. The Princess Elizabeth Alps located to the north across the Ingolf Fjord display a similar structure. The range is bound to the north and northwest by the inner Ingolf Fjord, to the east by the flatter eastern part of Holm Land, to the west by the Vandre Valley ''(Vandredalen)'' and the Saefaxi River ''(Sæfaxi Elv)'', and to the south by the Marmorvigen and the inner Hekla Sound, the NW branch of the Dijmph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ice Cap
In glaciology, an ice cap is a mass of ice that covers less than of land area (usually covering a highland area). Larger ice masses covering more than are termed ice sheets. Description Ice caps are not constrained by topographical features (i.e., they will lie over the top of mountains). By contrast, ice masses of similar size that ''are'' constrained by topographical features are known as ice fields. The ''dome'' of an ice cap is usually centred on the highest point of a massif. Ice flows away from this high point (the ice divide) towards the ice cap's periphery. Ice caps have significant effects on the geomorphology of the area that they occupy. Plastic moulding, gouging and other glacial erosional features become present upon the glacier's retreat. Many lakes, such as the Great Lakes in North America, as well as numerous valleys have been formed by glacial action over hundreds of thousands of years. On Earth, there are about of total ice mass. The average temper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hovgaard Island (Greenland)
Hovgaard Island ( da, Hovgaard Ø) is a large uninhabited island of the Greenland Sea, Greenland. The island was named after Andreas Hovgaard, a Polar explorer and officer of the Danish Navy who led an expedition to the Kara Sea on steamship '' Dijmphna'' in 1882–83.Hovgaard Ø. In: Anthony K. Higgins: ''Exploration history and place names of northern East Greenland.'' Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin Bd. 21, 2010. Copenhagen 2010, Polar climate prevails in Hovgaard Island. The average annual temperature in the area is -17 °C. The warmest month is July when the average temperature reaches -2 °C and the coldest is February when the temperature sinks to -29 °C. Geography Hovgaard Island is a coastal island located to the south of the Holm Land Peninsula. To the west, further inshore, lies smaller Lynn Island and to the east and the southeast the Greenland Sea. The Dijmphna Sound limits the island to the west and north, and to the southw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynn Island
Lynn Island ( da, Lynn Ø) is an uninhabited island of the Greenland Sea, Greenland. History The island was surveyed and named by the Danmark Expedition to the North-East Coast of Greenland 1906–1908. Expedition member Christian B. Thostrup recorded that it was named after a British shipping company based at Bridgeness.''Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland'', Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Geography Lynn Island is a coastal island located west of the southward bend of the Dijmphna Sound with the Hekla Sound on its northern and western shore. It lies to the west of much larger Hovgaard Island and to the south of the Holm Land Peninsula. The island has an area of and has a shoreline of . See also *List of islands of Greenland The following is an alphabetical list of the islands of Greenland. Many of these islands have both a Kalaallisut language name and a European language name. Islands and archipelagoes * Aaluik * Aasiaat Archipelago *Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Frederik Holm
Gustav Frederik Holm (6 August 1849 – 13 March 1940) was a Danish naval officer and Arctic explorer born in Copenhagen. Career He was made commander in the navy in 1899, was chief of the hydrographic bureau from 1899 to 1909, and became director of pilots in 1912. He became distinguished for his explorations, especially of the east coast of Greenland. In 1876, he participated in K. J. V. Steenstrup's geological expedition to the Julianehåb District. From 1883 to 1885 he led the Umiak Expedition with T. V. Garde, exploring the east coast of Christian IX Land, as far as 66° 8' N using umiak boats. The expedition encountered 11 Inuit communities, numbering 431 inhabitants, who were previously unknown to Europeans, and discovered five great ice fiords. For his explorations he received gold medals from the Société de géographie, Paris (1891), and the Danish Geographical Society (1895), and the Danish Order of Merit (1909). The results and observations of the expeditions w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenland Sea
The Greenland Sea is a body of water that borders Greenland to the west, the Svalbard archipelago to the east, Fram Strait and the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Norwegian Sea and Iceland to the south. The Greenland Sea is often defined as part of the Arctic Ocean, sometimes as part of the Atlantic Ocean. However, definitions of the Arctic Ocean and its seas tend to be imprecise or arbitrary. In general usage the term "Arctic Ocean" would exclude the Greenland Sea. In oceanographic studies the Greenland Sea is considered part of the Nordic Seas, along with the Norwegian Sea. The Nordic Seas are the main connection between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans and, as such, could be of great significance in a possible shutdown of thermohaline circulation. In oceanography the Arctic Ocean and Nordic Seas are often referred to collectively as the "Arctic Mediterranean Sea", a marginal sea of the Atlantic. The sea has Arctic climate with regular northern winds and temperatures rare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
