Queen Margrethe II Land

Queen Margrethe II Land
Native name: ; Nunat Dronning Margrethe II
	Queen Margrethe II Land in the southeast
	Queen Margrethe II Land
Geography
Location	East Greenland
Coordinates	75°40′N21°0′W / 75.667°N 21.000°W Coordinates: 75°40′N21°0′W / 75.667°N 21.000°W
Adjacent bodies of water	Bessel Fjord ; Greenland Sea ; Shannon Sound ; Ardencaple Fjord ; Bredefjord
Length	112 km (69.6 mi)
Width	65 km (40.4 mi)
Highest elevation	1,756 m (5,761 ft)
Administration
	Greenland (Denmark)
Zone	NE Greenland National Park
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited
Ramsar Wetland
Official name	Hochstetter Forland
Designated	27 January 1988
Reference no.	390 [1]

Last updated September 28, 2019

Queen Margrethe II Land (Danish : Dronning Margrethe II Land) is a peninsula in the northern limit of King Christian X Land, northeastern Greenland.^[2] Administratively it belongs to the NE Greenland National Park area.

Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in Denmark and in the region of Southern Schleswig in northern Germany, where it has minority language status. Also, minor Danish-speaking communities are found in Norway, Sweden, Spain, the United States, Canada, Brazil, and Argentina. Due to immigration and language shift in urban areas, around 15–20% of the population of Greenland speak Danish as their first language.

A peninsula is a landform surrounded by water on the majority of its border while being connected to a mainland from which it extends. The surrounding water is usually understood to be continuous, though not necessarily named as a single body of water. Peninsulas are not always named as such; one can also be a headland, cape, island promontory, bill, point, fork, or spit. A point is generally considered a tapering piece of land projecting into a body of water that is less prominent than a cape. A river which courses through a very tight meander is also sometimes said to form a "peninsula" within the loop of water. In English, the plural versions of peninsula are peninsulas and, less commonly, peninsulae.

King Christian X Land Region in Greenland

King Christian X Land is an area of northeastern Greenland.

History

The peninsula was named after Queen Margrethe II of Denmark on 16 April 1990 on the occasion of her 50th birthday.^[2]

Denmark, officially the Kingdom of Denmark, is a Nordic country. Denmark proper, which is the southernmost of the Scandinavian countries, consists of a peninsula, Jutland, and an archipelago of 443 named islands, with the largest being Zealand, Funen and the North Jutlandic Island. The islands are characterised by flat, arable land and sandy coasts, low elevation and a temperate climate. The southernmost of the Scandinavian nations, Denmark lies southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and is bordered to the south by Germany. The Kingdom of Denmark also includes two autonomous territories in the North Atlantic Ocean: the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Denmark has a total area of 42,924 km² (16,573 sq mi), land area of 42,394 km² (16,368 sq mi), and the total area including Greenland and the Faroe Islands is 2,210,579 km² (853,509 sq mi), and a population of 5.8 million.

In 1932 a Norwegian hunting station was built at the southern end of Hochstetter Foreland, on the western shore of Peters Bay, by the mouth of Ardencaple Fjord. It was named Jonsbu (Jónsbú) after Norwegian trapper John Schjelderup Giæver (1901–1970). The station was destroyed in World War II.^[2]

Peters Bay is a bay of the Greenland Sea in King Christian X Land, Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the NE Greenland National Park area.

Ardencaple Fjord is a fjord in King Christian X Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.

Jonsbu was a Norwegian hunting and radio station located on the coast of Eastern Greenland in present-day King Christian X Land.

Geography

Queen Margrethe II Land is bounded in the west by the Ejnar Mikkelsen Glacier, in the north by the Bessel Fjord, in the east by the Greenland Sea, in the southeast by the Shannon Sound —with Shannon Island across it to the east, and in the south by the Ardencaple Fjord and the Bredefjord. Adolf S. Jensen Land lies to the north of the Bessel Fjord. Haystack is the peninsula's easternmost point.^[3]

Bessel Fjord is a fjord in northeastern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the NE Greenland National Park area.

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 part of the Arctic Ocean, sometimes as part of the Atlantic Ocean. However, definitions of the Arctic Ocean and its seas tend to be imprecise or arbitrary. In general usage the term "Arctic Ocean" would exclude the Greenland Sea. In oceanographic studies the Greenland Sea is considered part of the Nordic Seas, along with the Norwegian Sea. The Nordic Seas are the main connection between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans and, as such, could be of great significance in a possible shutdown of thermohaline circulation. In oceanography the Arctic Ocean and Nordic Seas are often referred to collectively as the "Arctic Mediterranean Sea", a marginal sea of the Atlantic.

Shannon Island is a large island in Northeast Greenland National Park in eastern Greenland, to the east of Hochstetter Foreland, with an area of 1,466 km² (566 sq mi). It was named by Douglas Charles Clavering on his 1823 expedition for the Royal Navy frigate HMS Shannon, a 38 gun frigate on which he served as midshipman under Sir Philip Broke.

The peninsula has two distinct parts:

Norlund Land(Nørlund Land), the northern section, all mountainous.^[3] The name was given by Lauge Koch following aerial observations during the 1931 - 1934 Three-year Expedition to East Greenland in honour of N.E. Nørlund (1885–1980), the director of the Danish Geodesic Institute at that time. In the same manner as with the Norlund Alps further south, Norlund requested that the name should not be printed on official maps until after his death.^[2]
Hochstetter Foreland(Hochstetter Forland) is the flat part jutting to the south and southeast.^[4] The wetlands of Hochstetter Foreland are mostly tundra dotted with small lakes. Since it is an important place for staging geese in their long journeys —such as the Pink-footed goose (Anser brachyrhynchus), as well as for different species of waterbirds, the area was declared a Ramsar site in 1988.^[5]

Lauge Koch was a Danish geologist and Arctic explorer.

The Three-year Expedition was an exploratory expedition to East Greenland that lasted from 1931 to 1934 financed by the Carlsberg Foundation and the Danish state. The expedition included aerial surveys.

Niels Erik Nørlund was a Danish mathematician.

Mountains

The highest elevation of Queen Margrethe II Land is a 1,756 m (5,761 ft) high unnamed mountain in the southern part of Norlund Land.^[6] The main mountains in the peninsula are Møbius Bjerg and Schneekoppe in the north and the Barth Range, Matterhorn and Wildspitze in the southern area.^[3]

Related Research Articles

Clavering Island is a large island in eastern Greenland off Gael Hamke Bay, to the south of Wollaston Foreland.

Wollaston Foreland is a peninsula in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the NE Greenland National Park area.

Kuhn Island is a coastal island in Hochstetter Bay, eastern Greenland. There are coal deposits on the island.

Hochstetter Bay is a broad bay in northeastern Greenland. It is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park area.

Myggbukta, meaning "Mosquito Bay" in Norwegian, was a Norwegian whaling, meteorological and radio station located on the coast of Eastern Greenland in present-day King Christian X Land.

Kangerlussuaq Fjord is a fjord in eastern Greenland. It is part of the Sermersooq municipality.

King Frederick VIII Land Region in Greenland

King Frederick VIII Land is a major geographic division of northeastern Greenland. It extends above the Arctic Circle from 76°N to 81°N in a N/S direction along the coast of the Greenland Sea.

Thorland is a peninsula in the King Frederick VI Coast, southeastern Greenland. It is a part of the Sermersooq municipality.

Bredefjord is a fjord in northeastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.

Hold with Hope is a peninsula in eastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.

Adolf S. Jensen Land is a peninsula in the southern limit of King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the NE Greenland National Park area.

Daugaard-Jensen Land,, is a peninsula in northwestern Greenland. It is a part of the Avannaata municipality.

Godthab Gulf, also known as Godthaab Golf, Clavering Fjord, Clavering Sound and Inner Bay, is a fjord in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.

Young Sound is a marine channel with a fjord structure in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.

References

↑ "Hochstetter Forland". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
1 2 3 4 "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
1 2 3 "Norlund Land". Mapcarta. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
↑ "Hochstetter Forland". Mapcarta. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
↑ "Hochstetter Forland". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
↑ GoogleEarth

External links

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[1] "Hochstetter Forland". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.

[cat-2] 1 2 3 4 "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 1 July 2016.

[mapcartaA-3] 1 2 3 "Norlund Land". Mapcarta. Retrieved 1 July 2016.

[mapcartaB-4] "Hochstetter Forland". Mapcarta. Retrieved 1 July 2016.

[rsis-5] "Hochstetter Forland". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 1 July 2016.

[GE-6] GoogleEarth