Charcot Land

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Charcot Land
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View of the Daugaard-Jensen Glacier at the head of Nordvestfjord. The shady mountain slope on the right is part of Charcot Land.
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Charcot Land
Geography
LocationEast Greenland
Coordinates 72°15′N29°0′W / 72.250°N 29.000°W / 72.250; -29.000
Adjacent to
Length35 km (21.7 mi)
Width20 km (12 mi)
Highest elevation1,553 m (5095 ft)
Administration
Greenland (Denmark)
Zone Northeast Greenland National Park
Demographics
PopulationUninhabited

Charcot Land is a peninsula of Eastern Greenland, part of the Scoresby Sound system. It lies in the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.

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The area is remote and uninhabited. It was named after French Polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867–1936) during aerial surveys by Lauge Koch as part of the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland.

Geography

Charcot Land is a mountainous region. It is bound to the south by the Daugaard-Jensen Glacier, beyond which lies Hinksland. To the north lies the F. Graae Glacier and to the east the head of the Nordvestfjord, its easternmost point being a headland named Kap Ursus Major. [1]

To the west are a number of nunataks and the Greenland ice sheet. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
  2. ↑ "Charcot Land". Mapcarta. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
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