Nares Land or Naresland is an island in far 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 ...
. The island is named after Polar explorer Sir
George Nares
Vice-Admiral Sir George Strong Nares (24 April 1831 – 15 January 1915) was a Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer. He commanded the ''Challenger'' Expedition, and the British Arctic Expedition. He was highly thought of as a leader an ...
.
Geography
The island lies between the
Victoria Fjord
Victoria Fjord, also known as Victoria Inlet, is a large fjord in northern Greenland.
Its eastern shore forms the western limit of Peary Land.
Geography
To the northwest the fjord opens into the Lincoln Sea of the Arctic Ocean. Wulff Land form ...
and the
Nordenskjöld Fjord separated from the
Freuchen Land
Freuchen Land is a peninsula in far northwestern Greenland. It is a part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.
History
Freuchen Land was named after Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen (1886–1957), who took part in the 1906–1908 Denmark exp ...
Peninsula of the mainland by a narrow sound.
Stephenson Island and
John Murray Island lie off its northern end. Nares Land is fairly large, with an area of and a shoreline of . It is long and up to wide in its widest place. It has an average elevation of and its highest point is .
The area where the island lies has a severe
Polar climate
The polar climate regions are characterized by a lack of warm summers but with varying winters. Every month a polar climate has an average temperature of less than . Regions with a polar climate cover more than 20% of the Earth's area. Most of ...
and was formerly part of
Avannaa
Avannaa, originally Nordgrønland ("North Greenland"), was one of the three counties () of Greenland, which existed until 31 December 2008. The county seat was Qaanaaq, the main settlement.
It was one of the least-densely populated administrat ...
, originally ''Nordgrønland'' ("North Greenland"), a former county of Greenland until 31 December 2008.
The sea around the island is frozen practically the whole year round.
See also
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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 ...
*
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 ...
References
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Uninhabited islands of Greenland
Peary Land