Adam Biering Land

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Adam Biering Land (Greenland)
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Location Adam-Biering-Lands

Adam-Biering-Land ( Danish Adam Bierings Land ) is an uninhabited region in Northeast Greenland National Park .

Geography and nature

Adam Biering Land is south of Pearyland and 25 to 30 km west of the tip of the Independence Fjord . It is bounded in the north by the Hobbs glacier and the Ittukusuk Dal, in the east by the Valmuedalen , in the south by the Marie-Sophie and Nyebo glaciers and in the west by the inland ice . Its red sandstone mountains reach heights of over 1000 meters. Adam-Biering-Land is not glaciated and has a comparatively rich vegetation of grass and arctic poppy in the valleys, especially in Valmuedalen . Arctic willows grow on the slopes . Musk ox , mountain hare and lemmings as well as ptarmigan , turnstone , sanderling , little ringed plover and hawk skuas can be found in the region .

etymology

The region was discovered in 1912 by the First Thule Expedition and named after Adam Gottlob Biering (1856–1914), a Danish engineer who helped finance Knud Rasmussen 's trading post in Uummannaq , which was founded in 1910 . The name first appears on a map by Peter Freuchen in Rasmussen's 1915 expedition report.

Illustrations

  • MODIS satellite image

  • Topographic map sheet of North Greenland with
    ADAM BERINGS LAND (sic!)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Adam Biering Land . In: Encyclopedia Arctica 14: Greenland, Svalbard, Etc. Geography and General , Dartmouth College Library, 1947–1951 (English)
  2. ↑ a b Østgrønlandske Stednavne - Fra den første kortlægning (PDF; 9.54 MB) on the website of the Danish Arctic Institute (Danish)
  3. ^ Knud Rasmussen: Report of the first Thule expedition 1912 . In: Meddelelser om Grønland . Volume 51, 1915, pp. 283-342, here p. 341 .

Coordinates: 81 ° 51 ′  N , 35 ° 0 ′  W