ÃŽle-de-France is an uninhabited island of the
Greenland Sea
The Greenland Sea ( Danish: ''Grønlandshavet'') 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 Gre ...
,
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 Greenlan ...
. The island has an area of 246.1 km ² and a shoreline of 71.9 kilometres. It lies off the southern part of
Jokel Bay and southeast of the
Danske Islands.
Skaer Fjord is located southwest of ÃŽle-de-France's southern end. It is a broad fjord or bay with several arms extending westwards from it.
History
This island was named in 1905 by the
Duke of Orléans
Duke of Orléans () was a French royal title usually granted by the King of France to one of his close relatives (usually a younger brother or son), or otherwise inherited through the male line. First created in 1344 by King Philip VI for his yo ...
during his
Duke of Orléans Arctic Expedition when he explored parts of the northeastern coast of Greenland on ship
Belgica
Gallia Belgica ("Belgic Gaul") was a Roman province, province of the Roman Empire located in the north-eastern part of Roman Gaul, in what is today primarily northern France, Belgium, and Luxembourg, along with parts of the Netherlands and German ...
.
[''Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland'', Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland]
See also
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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 Indo-European languages, European language name.
Islands and archipelagoes
*Aaluik
*Aasiaat
*Achton Friis Is ...
References
Uninhabited islands of Greenland
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