Roosevelt Land ( da, Roosevelts Land) is a

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in far northern

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. It is a part of 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). ...

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The territory was named by

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after US President

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Geography

Roosevelt Land is located in western

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 ...

, to the north of

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, separated from it by the

Harder Fjord Harder Fjord ( da, Harders Fjord) is a fjord in Peary Land, far northern Greenland.Google Maps The Harder Ford Fault Zone (HFFZ) is a geological structural feature in North Greenland named after the fjord. Geography Harder Fjord is the innermost ...

, To the west it is limited by the Conger Sound, and to the east by

Gertrud Rask Land Gertrud Rask Land ( da, Gertrud Rasks 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 w ...

. The northernmost headland is Cape Washington and the westernmost Cape Kane, both on the

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shore. The peninsula is mountainous, deeply cut by

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areas. The

Roosevelt Range The Roosevelt Range or Roosevelt Mountains ( da, Roosevelt Fjelde) 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. Locat ...

runs across Roosevelt Land eastwards. The main glacier is the

Thomas Glacier Thomas Glacier () is a roughly Z-shaped glacier which drains the southeast slopes of Vinson Massif and flows for 17 nautical miles (31 km) through the south part of the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains, leaving the range between Doyra ...

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The highest point is a summit found in the southern zone of the central part of the peninsula.Map of part of Ellesmere Island">Map of part of Ellesmere Island
and far Northern Greenland./ref> American geologist William E. Davies">Ellesmere Island
and far Northern Greenland.">Ellesmere Island">Map of part of Ellesmere Island
and far Northern Greenland./ref> American geologist William E. Davies called the long mountain system to the north of J.P. Koch Fjord and Frederick E. Hyde Fjord the "Nansen-Jensen Alps", with the westernmost foothills in neighboring Nansen Land, stretching past the De Long Fjord area across Roosevelt Land and the

, and reaching all the way to

Johannes V. Jensen Land Johannes V. Jensen Land is an area in Peary Land, Northern Greenland. Administratively it lies in the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. The area is remote and currently uninhabited. Johannes V. Jensen Land is the northernmost region on Earth ...

in the east.W. E. Davies, ''Landscape of Northern Greenland'' 1972

Bibliography

*H.P. Trettin (ed.), ''Geology of the Innuitian Orogen and Arctic Platform of Canada and Greenland.'' 1991

References

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The Earliest Annelids: Lower Cambrian Polychaetes from the Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, Peary Land, North GreenlandGreenland Pilot
Peninsulas of Greenland Peary Land {{greenland-geo-stub

Geography

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