Wollaston Foreland

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Wollaston Foreland
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Wollaston Foreland
Location
Geography
LocationEast Greenland
Coordinates 74°30′N20°00′W / 74.500°N 20.000°W / 74.500; -20.000 Coordinates: 74°30′N20°00′W / 74.500°N 20.000°W / 74.500; -20.000
Adjacent bodies of water
Length71 km (44.1 mi)
Width35 km (21.7 mi)
Highest elevation1,444 m (4,738 ft)
Highest point Dombjerg
Administration
Greenland (Denmark)
Zone NE Greenland National Park

Wollaston Foreland (Danish : Wollaston Forland) is a peninsula in the NE Greenland National Park area, East Greenland.

Danish language North Germanic language spoken in Denmark

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.

Peninsula A piece of land that is bordered by water on three sides but connected to mainland.

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.

Northeast Greenland National Park National park in Greenland

Northeast Greenland National Park is the world's largest national park and the 9th largest protected area. Established in 1974 and expanded to its present size in 1988, it protects 972,000 km2 (375,000 sq mi) of the interior and northeastern coast of Greenland and is bigger than all but 29 of the world's 194 countries. It was the first national park to be created in the Kingdom of Denmark and remains Greenland's only national park. It is the northernmost national park in the world.

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History

This peninsula was named by William Scoresby in 1822 as a testimony of respect to William Hyde Wollaston. It was also surveyed and explored by the Second German North Polar Expedition 1869–70 led by Carl Koldewey.

William Scoresby English Arctic explorer, scientist and clergyman

Rev Dr William Scoresby FRS FRSE DD, was an English Arctic explorer, scientist and clergyman.

William Hyde Wollaston Scientist, physicist

William Hyde Wollaston was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering the chemical elements palladium and rhodium. He also developed a way to process platinum ore into malleable ingots.

German North Polar Expedition series of arctic German expeditions

The German North Polar Expeditions were a short series of mid-19th century German expeditions to the Arctic. The aim was to explore the North Pole region and to brand the newly united, Prussian-led German Empire as a great power. In 1866, German geographer August Petermann wrote a pamphlet strongly advocating German participation in the international quest for the North Pole, which stimulated a German expedition.

The Danish Sirius Dog Sled Patrol has its headquarters at Daneborg on the southeastern shore. The Zackenberg research station is situated further West, near Young Sound.

Denmark Constitutional monarchy in Europe

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.

The Sirius Dog Sled Patrol, known informally as Siriuspatruljen and formerly known as North-East Greenland Sledge Patrol and Resolute Dog Sled Patrol, is an elite Danish naval unit. It conducts long-range reconnaissance patrolling, and enforces Danish sovereignty in the Arctic wilderness of northern and eastern Greenland, an area that includes the largest national park in the world. Patrolling is usually done in pairs, sometimes for four months and often without additional human contact.

Daneborg settlement in Greenland

Daneborg is a station on the south coast of Wollaston Foreland peninsula of northeast Greenland, at the mouth of Young Sund emptying into Greenland Sea. Daneborg serves as the headquarters for the SIRIUS Patrol, the dog sled patrollers of the Northeast Greenland National Park, the largest national park in the world. The number of persons at the station is few and varies considerably from summer to winter. Daneborg is the most populated of stations in the park, with an over-wintering population of 12. Daneborg has an approximately 400 metres (1,300 ft) long airstrip.

Geography

Wollaston Foreland is bounded in the north by the Lindeman Fjord and Albrecht Bay of Hochstetter Bay, in the east by the Greenland Sea, in the south by the Young Sound and Gael Hamke Bay [1] and in the west by A. P. Olsen Land. [2] To the south and southwest across Young Sound lies large Clavering Island, close off northeast Sabine Island, and close off north Kuhn Island. Cape Wynn is the peninsula's easternmost point. [3]

Hochstetter Bay bay in Greenland

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

Greenland Sea A body of water that borders Greenland to the west, the Svalbard archipelago to the east, south of the Fram Strait

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.

Young Sound sound in Greenland

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.

Wollaston Foreland is mountainous. Its highest point is the massive-looking 1444 m high Dombjerg, located in the western section near the isthmus. Other important mountains are Zackenberg, Kuplen, Nålene, Cardiocerasbjerg, Aucellabjerg, Murbjerg, Hühnerbjerg, Clark Bjerg and Herschell Bjerg. [3]

Zackenberg mountain in Greenland

Zackenberg or Zackenburg is a mountain in Wollaston Foreland, NE Greenland.

East Greenland Terra/MODIS satellite image Greenland.A2003233.1340.250m.jpg
East Greenland Terra/MODIS satellite image
View of the Huhnerbjerg (German: Huhnerberg ) glacier at the northeastern end. FMIB 43835 Huhnerberg Glacier.jpeg
View of the Hühnerbjerg (German : Hühnerberg) glacier at the northeastern end.

Bibliography

Carl Koldewey German explorer

Carl Christian Koldewey was a German Arctic explorer. He led both German North Polar Expeditions.

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Store Koldewey island

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Zackenberg Station research station in Greenland

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Ardencaple Fjord fjord in Greenland

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Peters Bay bay of the Greenland Sea in King Christian X Land, Greenland

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References

  1. ↑ Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 101
  2. ↑ "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Wollaston Forland". Mapcarta. Retrieved 21 April 2016.


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