Charcot Land is a
peninsula
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of Eastern
Greenland, part of the
Scoresby Sound system. It lies in the
Northeast Greenland National Park
Northeast Greenland National Park ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaanni nuna eqqissisimatitaq, da, Grønlands Nationalpark) is the world's largest national park and the 10th List of largest protected areas in the world, largest protected area (the only large ...
zone.
The area is remote and uninhabited. It was named after French Polar explorer
Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867–1936) during aerial surveys by
Lauge Koch as part of the
Three-year Expedition to East Greenland.
Geography
Charcot Land is a
mountainous region. It is bound to the south by the
Daugaard-Jensen Glacier, beyond which lies
Hinksland. To the north lies the
F. Graae Glacier
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F may also refer to:
Science and technology Mathematics
* F or f, the number 15 (number), 15 in hexadecimal and higher positional systems
* ''p'F'q'', the hypergeometric function
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and to the east the head of the
Nordvestfjord, its easternmost point being a headland named
Kap Ursus Major.
To the west are a number of nunataks and the
Greenland ice sheet
The Greenland ice sheet ( da, Grønlands indlandsis, kl, Sermersuaq) is a vast body of ice covering , roughly near 80% of the surface of Greenland. It is sometimes referred to as an ice cap, or under the term ''inland ice'', or its Danish equiva ...
.
Bibliography
*A. K. Higgins, Jane A. Gilotti, M. Paul Smith (eds.), ''The Greenland Caledonides: Evolution of the Northeast Margin of Laurentia''.
References
External links
Palaeoproterozoic age of a basement gneiss complex in the Charcot Land tectonic window, East Greenland Caledonides
Geography of Greenland
Geography of the Arctic
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