Johannes V. Jensen 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 ...

, Northern

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 ...

. Administratively it lies in the

Northeast Greenland National Park Northeast Greenland National Park (, ) is the world's largest national park and the 10th largest protected area (the only larger protected areas consist mostly of sea). Established in 1974, the Northeast Greenland national park expanded to its p ...

zone. The area is remote and currently uninhabited. Johannes V. Jensen Land is the northernmost region on Earth.

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History

This extreme northern area was sparsely inhabited about 2,400 years ago. Its inhabitants were people dependent on hunting

muskoxen The muskox (''Ovibos moschatus'') is a hoofed mammal of the family Bovidae. Native to the Arctic, it is noted for its thick coat and for the strong odor emitted by males during the seasonal rut, from which its name derives. This musky odor has ...

for survival. The ruins near the head of

Frigg Fjord Frigg Fjord () is a fjord in Peary Land, far northern Greenland. The archaeological remains in the northern shore and at the head of this fjord belong to the northernmost human settlements in human history. Further ruins slightly to the north at ...

are the northernmost remains of settlements in human history.Bjarne Grønnow, Jens Fog Jensen: ''The Northernmost Ruins of the Globe. Eigil Knuth’s Archaeological Investigations in Peary Land and Adjacent Areas of High Arctic Greenland'' (= Man & Society. Vol. 29). Museum Tusculanums Forlag, Københavns Universitet, Copenhagen 2003, pp. 219–237 This region was named after Danish author

Johannes V. Jensen Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (; 20 January 1873 – 25 November 1950) was a Danish author, known as one of the great Danish writers of the first half of 20th century. He was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the rare strength and ferti ...

(1873–1950) who was awarded the

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in 1944.

Geography

Johannes V. Jensen Land is a

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region, with the

Roosevelt Range The Roosevelt Range or Roosevelt Mountains () is a mountain range in Northern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. Its highest peak is the highest point in Peary Land. Located about from the N ...

running across it. Its subranges, the H. H. Benedict Range and

Daly Range The Daly Range or Daly Mountains () is a mountain range in Peary Land, Northern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. It forms the eastern end of the northernmost mountain range on Earth.2002 Am ...

, rise on the eastern side. It is bound to the north by the

Lincoln Sea Lincoln Sea (; ) is a body of water in the Arctic Ocean, stretching from Cape Columbia, Canada, in the west to Cape Morris Jesup, Greenland, in the east. The northern limit is defined as the great circle line between those two headlands. It is co ...

and the

Wandel Sea The Wandel Sea (; also known as McKinley Sea) is a body of water in the Greenland Sea, stretching from northeast of Greenland to Svalbard. It is obstructed by ice most of the year. This sea is named after Danish polar explorer and hydrographer, ...

and to the south by the Frederick E. Hyde Fjord. The northernmost point is

Cape Morris Jesup Cape Morris Jesup () is a headland in Peary Land, Greenland. Geography Cape Morris Jesup is the northernmost point of mainland Greenland, the northernmost point of any mainland, and the northernmost land point on Earth except for the small isl ...

. To the west lie

Gertrud Rask Land Gertrud Rask Land () is an area in Peary Land, North Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.Google Maps The territory was named by Lauge Koch after Gertrud Rask (1673 – 1735), the wife of missionary Hans ...

and

Roosevelt Land Roosevelt Land () is a peninsula in far northern Greenland. It is a part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.Google Maps The territory was named by Robert Peary after US President Theodore Roosevelt (1858 – 1919). Geography Roosevelt Land ...

. Its easternmost point is Cape Ole Chiewitz, a headland jutting out into the Wandel Sea to the northeast of the mouth of Frederick E. Hyde Fjord and to the southeast of

Cape Bridgman Cape Bridgman () is a headland in the Wandel Sea, Arctic Ocean, northeast Greenland. The cape was named by Robert Peary after Herbert L. Bridgman, one of the members of the Peary Arctic Club in New York. The northernmost human remains of the I ...

.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute,'' p. 129 There are several glaciers in Johannes V. Jensen Land, such as the Malcantone Glacier, the Sif Glacier, the

Moore Glacier Moore Glacier () is a glacier in northern Greenland.Google Earth Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park. Between 2006 and 2010 there was an automatic weather station in the glacier. The glacier was named by Robert Pe ...

and the

Bertelsen Glacier Bertelsen Glacier () is a glacier in northern Greenland.Google Earth Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park. Between 2006 and 2010 there was an automatic weather station near the glacier. The glacier was mapped with ...

. Owing to a structural continuum in the mountains between Johannes V. Jensen Land in the east and

Nansen Land Nansen Land is a peninsula in far northwestern Greenland. It is a part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. The Arctic wolf is present in the peninsula. The northern shore facing the Lincoln sea slopes evenly and is fertile for the area, be ...

in the west, American geologist William E. Davies called the wider range the "Nansen-Jensen Alps" in a work he published in 1972.W. E. Davies, ''Landscape of Northern Greenland'' 1972

Bibliography

*H.P. Trettin (ed.), ''Geology of the Innuitian

Orogen An orogenic belt, orogen, or mobile belt, is a zone of Earth's crust affected by orogeny. An orogenic belt develops when a continental plate crumples and is uplifted to form one or more mountain ranges; this involves a series of geological proc ...

and Arctic Platform of Canada and Greenland.'' 1991

References

External links

Where the northernmost world ends – Fieldwork on Johannes V. Jensen Land, northern GreenlandLichens from Johannes V. Jensen Land, N Greenland, the northernmost arctic land areaQuaternary history, Johannes V Jensen Land, northern Peary Land, northernmost Greenland (82.5 N)
Geography of Greenland Geography of the Arctic Peary Land {{greenland-geo-stub