Schnauder Island is an uninhabited island 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 ...

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 t ...

. This island was named after German astronomer

Max Schnauder Max or MAX may refer to: Animals * Max (dog) (1983–2013), at one time purported to be the world's oldest living dog * Max (English Springer Spaniel), the first pet dog to win the PDSA Order of Merit (animal equivalent of OBE) * Max (gorilla) (1 ...

(1860-1939) by the ill-fated

Denmark Expedition The Denmark expedition ( da, Danmark-ekspeditionen), also known as the Denmark Expedition to Greenland's Northeast Coast, and as the Danmark Expedition after the ship, was an expedition to the northeast of Greenland in 1906–1908. Despite being ...

Geography

Schnauder Island lies in the northern

Jokel Bay Jokel Bay ( da, Jøkelbugten) is a large bay in North Eastern Greenland. The area of the bay is uninhabited. Administratively Jokel Bay and its surroundings belong to the Northeast Greenland National Park. The bay was named after an old Norse word ...

area by the terminus of the

Zachariae Isstrom Zachariae Isstrom ( da, Zachariae Isstrøm; Isstrøm being the Danish word for ice stream) is a large glacier located in King Frederick VIII Land, northeast Greenland. This glacier was named by the Denmark expedition 1906–08 after Georg Hugh Rob ...

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. The

Achton Friis Islands The Achton Friis Islands ( da, Achton Friis Øer) are a group of two uninhabited islands in the Greenland Sea, Greenland. They were named by the Denmark expedition in honor of illustrator Achton Friis, one of the expedition members. Geography The ...

lie off the northern end and the

Franske Islands Franske Islands, da, Franske Øer, french: Iles Françaises; meaning 'French Islands', is a group of uninhabited islands of the Greenland Sea, Greenland. Administratively the islands belong to the Northeast Greenland National Park. Geography The ...

to the east. It has a surface of 180.3 km² and a shoreline of 105 kilometres.UNEP
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Uninhabited islands of Greenland {{Greenland-geo-stub

Geography

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