Little Pendulum Island ( da, Lille Pedulum Ø) is an island in Eastern
Greenland
Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland is ...
, in the
Northeast Greenland National Park
Northeast Greenland National Park ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaanni nuna eqqissisimatitaq, da, Grønlands Nationalpark) is the world's largest national park and the 10th largest protected area (the only larger protected areas all consist mostly of sea). ...
.
History
The island was named by
Douglas Charles Clavering’s 1823 expedition, during which the
Irish scientist
Edward Sabine
Sir Edward Sabine ( ; 14 October 1788 – 26 June 1883) was an Irish astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist, explorer, soldier and the 30th president of the Royal Society.
He led the effort to establish a system of magnetic observatories in ...
swung the pendulum on the largest of the islands (Sabine Island).
Geography
Little Pendulum Island is located to the north east of
Wollaston Foreland
Wollaston Foreland ( da, Wollaston Forland) is a peninsula in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the NE Greenland National Park area.
History
This peninsula was named by William Scoresby in 1822 as a testimony ...
, and to the south of
Shannon Island
Shannon Island ( da, Shannon Ø) is a large island in Northeast Greenland National Park in eastern Greenland, to the east of Hochstetter Foreland, with an area of . It was named by Douglas Charles Clavering on his 1823 expedition for the Royal Na ...
. Together with
Sabine Island
Sabine Island ( ; da, Sabine Ø) is an island to the northeast of Wollaston Foreland, previously known as ''Inner Pendulum Island''. It is in the Northeast Greenland National Park area.
Geography
Sabine Island is long from Kap Neumayer in the ...
(formerly Inner Pendulum Island) and an islet named Walrus Island ( da, Hvalros Ø) south of Sabine,
Hvalros Ø
/ref> it constitutes the Pendulum Islands.
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 European language name.
Islands and archipelagoes
* Aaluik
* Aasiaat Archipelago
*Achton Friis Islands
* Agg ...
References
Uninhabited islands of Greenland
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