Th. Sørensen Land is an area in

King Christian X Land King Christian X Land (; ) is an area of northeastern Greenland. History This area was named after King Christian X of Denmark and Iceland (). At the time of the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland, it is reported that, when Lauge Koch w ...

, Eastern

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 ...

, part of the inner

Scoresby Sound Scoresby Sound (Danish: ''Scoresby Sund'', Greenlandic language, Greenlandic: ''Kangertittivaq'') is a large fjord system of the Greenland Sea on the eastern coast of Greenland. It has a tree-like structure, with a main body approximately

system. Administratively it lies in the

Northeast Greenland National Park Northeast Greenland National Park (, ) is the world's largest national park and the 10th largest protected area (the only larger protected areas consist mostly of sea). Established in 1974, the Northeast Greenland national park expanded to its p ...

zone. The area is remote and uninhabited. Th. Sørensen Land was named during the 1971 Northern Universities expedition after Danish botanist

Thorvald Sørensen Thorvald (Thorwald) Julius Sørensen (4 July 1902 – 21 June 1973) was a Danish botanist and evolutionary biologist. Biography Sørensen was professor at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University 1953–1955 and at the University of C ...

(1902–1973) who published the botanical research of the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland.

Geography

Th. Sørensen Land is a

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region. It is bound to the north by Flyver Fjord, a branch of

Nordvestfjord Nordvestfjord, meaning 'Northwest Fjord', () is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively most of its length lies in the Northeast Greenland National Park area, at the border of Sermersooq municipality. This fjord is ...

, beyond which lies Hinksland. To the southeast it is separated from Renland by the Edvard Bay Valley. Its easternmost point is a headland jutting out into the right bank of the Nordvestfjord.

Nathorst Land Nathorst Land is the land area between Van Keulenfjorden and Van Mijenfjorden on Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The area is named after Alfred Gabriel Nathorst Alfred Gabriel Nathorst (7 November 1850 – 20 January 1921) was a Swedish Arctic e ...

lies to the northeast in the opposite shore. There are several glaciers in Th. Sørensen Land, such as the Eielson Glacier and the Vindue Glacier. Further to the northwest flows the Freuchen Glacier. To the west rise the Royston Nunataks, and beyond them the

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Bibliography

*A. K. Higgins, Jane A. Gilotti, M. Paul Smith (eds.), ''The Greenland Caledonides: Evolution of the Northeast Margin of Laurentia''.

References

External links

Palaeoproterozoic age of a basement gneiss complex in the Th. Sørensen Land tectonic window, East Greenland Caledonides
Geography of Greenland Geography of the Arctic {{greenland-geo-stub