Bjorne Islands, ; ) meaning 'Bear Islands', is an island group in the

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, NE

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. The islands are uninhabited. Administratively they belong to the

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municipality.

History

This island group was named by

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in the course of his 1891–92 East Greenland Expedition, because a bear was shot while the islands were being surveyed on 4 September 1891. Individual islands were not assigned names, but in 1934 they were numbered I to XI following the first survey carried out by Eduard Wenk and

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. Members of the 1934 surveying group climbed parts of the spectacular ridges of islands VI and IX (''Första Nålbrevet'' and ''Sista Nålbrevet''). Further climbs were reported in 1978 by an expedition of the

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Geography

The Bjorne Islands are a cluster of small islands that lie in the Hall Gulf ''(Hall Bredning)'', off the right side of the mouth of

Ofjord Ofjord (; , meaning 'Island Fjord') is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland. This fjord is part of the Scoresby Sound system.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 115 Administratively it lies in the ...

, south of the mouth of

Nordvestfjord Nordvestfjord, meaning 'Northwest Fjord', () is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively most of its length lies in the Northeast Greenland National Park area, at the border of Sermersooq municipality. This fjord is ...

. The southern tip of the southernmost island rises north of Bregnepynt, the northeastern end of

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.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 116 The biggest two islands are about in length.

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Bibliography

*Kalsbeek, F. 1969: ''Preliminary report on the geology of Bjørneøer, Scoresby Sund.'' Rapport Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse 26, 33 pp.

References

Uninhabited islands of Greenland {{Greenland-geo-stub

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Geography

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