Amundsen Land () or Amundsenland, is a

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in central North

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. It is a part of the

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The territory was named after Norwegian explorer

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(1872 – 1928).

Geography

Amundsen Land is located in western

Peary Land Peary Land is a peninsula in northern Greenland, extending into the Arctic Ocean. It reaches from Victoria Fjord in the west to Independence Fjord in the south and southeast, and to the Arctic Ocean in the north, with Cape Morris Jesup, the nor ...

, to the south of

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, separated from it by the

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and the Dreng Glacier ''(Dreng Brae)'' at its head. To the west it is limited by the

Weyprecht Fjord Weyprecht Fjord is a fjord in Peary Land, northern Greenland. To the northwest, the fjord opens into the Lincoln Sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. The fjord is named after Austro-Hungarian Arctic explor ...

, and to the south by the O.B. Bøggild Fjord and the Nordpasset, beyond which lies the

Hans Tausen Ice Cap Hans Tausen Ice Cap () is an ice cap in Peary Land, northern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. Age Ice cores show it is around 3500–4000 years old. It formed since the Holocene climatic optimum ...

. The westernmost headland is

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Amundsen Land is mountainous with many

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areas. The highest point is a summit in the central part of the peninsula.Map
of part of

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and far Northern Greenland.

Bibliography

*H.P. Trettin (ed.), ''Geology of the Innuitian Orogen and Arctic Platform of Canada and Greenland.'' 1991

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Base-metal and REE anomalies in lower Palaeozoic sedimentary rocks of Amundsen Land, central North Greenland: implications for Zn-Pb potentialCambrian - Lower Silurian slope and basin stratigraphy between northern Nyeboe Land and western Amundsen Land, North GreenlandThe Earliest Annelids: Lower Cambrian Polychaetes from the Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, Peary Land, North Greenland
Peninsulas of Greenland Peary Land {{greenland-geo-stub

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