Amdrup Land

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Amdrup Land
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1911 Lauge Koch map of NE Greenland showing Amdrup Land
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Amdrup Land
Geography
LocationEast Greenland
Coordinates 80°47′N15°22′W / 80.783°N 15.367°W / 80.783; -15.367
Adjacent to
Length100 km (60 mi)
Width50 km (31 mi)
Highest elevation590 m (1940 ft)
Highest pointUnnamed
Administration
Greenland (Denmark)
Zone NE Greenland National Park
Demographics
PopulationUninhabited

Amdrup Land is a land area in the Crown Prince Christian Land peninsula, King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. [1] Administratively it belongs to the NE Greenland National Park area.

Contents

Numerous fossils of the Carboniferous and Palaeozoic periods have been found in Amdrup Land, including fossil algae and fishes. [2]

Geography

Amdrup Land is largely unglaciated. It is bound in the north by the large Flade Isblink ice cap, in the east by Antarctic Bay of the Greenland Sea and in the south by the Ingolf Fjord, on the other side of which rises Holm Land.

The Henrik Krøyer Holme island group lies off its southeastern point. To the northwest rise the Princess Elizabeth Alps. [3]

History

Amdrup Land was named by the 1906-1908 Denmark expedition after Georg Carl Amdrup, a member of the expedition committee. [4] [5]

The 1938–39 Mørkefjord expedition found numerous stone mounds which proved to be ancient Inuit meat caches at a place named Kødgravene, in the northeastern shore of Amdrup Land. Archaeological remains of an Inuit settlement were found at Sommerterrassen, north of Cape Jungersen in the SE coast. [4] [6]

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Map of Northeastern Greenland.

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References

  1. ↑ "Amdrup Land". GeoHack. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
  2. ↑ Carboniferous algal microflora, Kap Jungersen and Foldedal Formations, Holm Land and Amdrup Land, eastern North Greenland
  3. ↑ Google Earth
  4. 1 2 Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
  5. ↑ Full text of "Greenland" - Internet Archive
  6. ↑ Coulson, Sheila; Andreasen, Claus (2020). "Uncovering their tracks: Intra-site behaviour at a Paleo-Inuit multiple dwelling site". Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 58: 101169. doi: 10.1016/j.jaa.2020.101169 . S2CID   219509308.
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