Gertrud Rask Land () is an area in

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 ...

, North

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. Administratively it is part of the

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The territory was named by

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after

Gertrud Rask Gertrud Rask (167321 December 1735) was the first wife of the Danish-Norwegian missionary to Greenland Hans Egede and was the mother of the missionary and translator Paul Egede. Life in Norway Gertrud Rask (the parish register records her as Gj ...

(1673 – 1735), the wife of missionary

Hans Egede Hans Poulsen Egede (31 January 1686 – 5 November 1758) was a Denmark–Norway, Danish-Norwegian Lutheran missionary priest who launched mission efforts to Greenland, which led him to be styled the Apostle of Greenland. He established a succes ...

, during the 1921–1923 Bicentenary Jubilee Expedition surveys. Koch found no

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in the area and deemed that it was too arduous for the animals to cross this barren, inhospitable expanse, so that they had to choose another route to reach the northeast coast of Peary Land in their migrations.Dan Laursen, ''The Place Names of North Greenland.'' Kommissionen for Videnskabelige Undersøgelser i Grønland (ed.): Meddelelser om Grønland. Vol. 180, Nr. 2. C. A. Reitzels Forlag, Kopenhagen 1972, ISBN 87-421-0070-4, p. 244Geographical Items on North Greenland - Encyclopedia Arctica 14
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Geography

Gertrud Rask Land is located in northern

, to the east of

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, separated from it by the A. Harmsworth Glacier. To the west it is limited by the

Benedict Fjord Benedict Fjord is a fjord in Peary Land, northern Greenland. To the north, the fjord opens into the Lincoln Sea of the Arctic Ocean. The fjord was named by Robert Peary in honor of New York banker and yachtsman E. C. Benedict, one of the promin ...

, and to the east by the

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and the

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. Another large glacier descends directly into the sea in the central part. To the south rise the highest peaks of the

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, including

Helvetia Tinde Helvetia Tinde (Helvetia Peak) is the highest mountain in the Roosevelt Range, Northern Greenland. It is also the highest mountain of the northernmost mountain range on Earth. Administratively, it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park ...

. To the north lies the frozen

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, where the northwesternmost headland is Cape Cannon, the northernmost one Cape Christian IV and the northeasternmost one

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The terrain is harsh, mountainous and rugged, with numerous

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areas. The highest point of Gertrud Rask Land is a summit located in the inner part. Map of far Northern Greenland. According to other sources the same peak is high.Gertrud Rask Land High Point, Greenland - Peakbagger
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Bibliography

*H.P. Trettin (ed.), ''Geology of the Innuitian Orogen and Arctic Platform of Canada and Greenland.'' 1991 * J. D. Friderichsen et al. ''Lithostratigraphic framework of the Upper Proterozoic and Lowe Paleozoic Deep Water Elastic Deposits of North Greenland'' 1982

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''Geographical Record'' - Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, Vol. 39, No. 1 (1907), pp. 28-42Bekendtgørelse om fiskeriterritoriet ved Grønland
Geography of Greenland Geography of the Arctic Peary Land {{greenland-geo-stub

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