Kuhn Island ( da, Kuhn Ø) is a coastal island in

Hochstetter Bay Hochstetter Bay ( da, Hochstetterbugten) is a broad bay in northeastern Greenland. It is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park area. The name is said to have been in use from 1929 by Danish hunters, and first appeared on the maps of the 19 ...

, eastern Greenland. 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 ge ...

(1869-1870) and is named after

Franz Kuhn von Kuhnenfeld Franz Kuhn von Kuhnenfeld (15 July 1817 – 25 May 1896) was an Austro-Hungarian military officer who fought against Giuseppe Garibaldi in the wars of Italian independence and served as Imperial and Royal Minister of War from 1868 to 1874. Duri ...

, the Austro-Hungarian minister of war, who was a patron of the expedition's cartographer, Julius von Payer.

Geography

This island lies to the north of Wollaston Foreland, separated from

Thomas Thomsen Land Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Ap ...

in the mainland by a narrow sound, the

Fligely Fjord Fligely Fjord is a fjord in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. History The fjord was first surveyed by Carl Koldewey during the 1869–70 Second German North Polar Expe ...

. The

Lindeman Fjord Lindeman Fjord is a fjord in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. History The outer part of the fjord was first surveyed by Carl Koldewey during the 1869–70 Second Germ ...

has its mouth to the southwest and the

of the

Greenland Sea The Greenland Sea 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 Greenland Sea is often defined as p ...

lies to the east. The mouths of Ardencaple Fjord and

Grandjean Fjord Grandjean Fjord is a fjord in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. History This fjord was mapped in 1932 during the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland led by Lauge ...

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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References

{{Greenland-geo-stub Uninhabited islands of Greenland

Geography

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