Kuhn Island () is a coastal island in
Hochstetter Bay, eastern
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 ...
. There are coal deposits on the island.
The island was discovered by the
Second German North Polar Expedition
The German North Polar Expeditions were a short series of mid-19th century German expeditions to the Arctic. The aim was to explore the North Pole region and to brand the newly united, Prussian-led German Empire as a great power. In 1866, German g ...
(1869-1870) and is named after
Franz Kuhn von Kuhnenfeld, the Austro-Hungarian minister of war, who was a patron of the expedition's cartographer,
Julius von Payer
Julius Johannes Ludovicus Ritter von Payer (2 September 1841 – 29 August 1915), ennobled Ritter von Payer in 1876, was an officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army, mountaineer, Polar exploration, arctic explorer, Cartography, cartographer, paint ...
.
Geography
This island lies to the north of
Wollaston Foreland, separated from
Thomas Thomsen Land in the mainland by a narrow sound, the
Fligely Fjord. The
Lindeman Fjord has its mouth to the southwest and the
Hochstetter Bay of the
Greenland Sea
The Greenland Sea ( Danish: ''Grønlandshavet'') is a body of water that borders Greenland to the west, the Svalbard archipelago to the east, Fram Strait and the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Norwegian Sea and Iceland to the south. The Gre ...
lies to the east. The mouths of
Ardencaple Fjord and
Grandjean Fjord open to the north.
The islands that are located further off the shore in the bay are
Shannon Island to the NE and the
Pendulum Islands to the SE.
Kuhn Ø
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See also
*List of islands of Greenland
The following is an alphabetical list of the islands of Greenland. Many of these islands have both a Kalaallisut language name and a Indo-European languages, European language name.
Islands and archipelagoes
*Aaluik
*Aasiaat
*Achton Friis Is ...
References
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Uninhabited islands of Greenland