Ellef Ringnes Island
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| Waters | Arctic Ocean |
| Archipelago | Queen Elizabeth Islands |
| Geographical location | 78 ° 37 ′ N , 101 ° 56 ′ W |
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| length | 218 km |
| width | 110 km |
| surface | 11,295 km² |
| Highest elevation | Isachsen Dome 260 m |
| Residents | uninhabited |
| main place | ( Isachsen ) |
![Climate diagram of the Isachsen weather station [1]](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Klimadiagramm-metrisch-deutsch-Isachsen-Kanada.png) |
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Ellef Ringnes Island is an island in the Canadian territory of Nunavut and belongs to the Sverdrup Islands , a group of islands in the Queen Elizabeth Islands . It is east of Borden Island and west of Amund Ringnes Island and has an area of 11,295 km² (according to other sources 10,600 km²).
The island was discovered in 1901 by Gunnerius Ingvald Isachsen and Sverre Hassel , two members of the Second Fram Expedition (1898–1902) led by Otto Sverdrup . Sverdrup named it after Ellef Ringnes , the co-founder of the Norwegian brewery Ringnes , which had financed Sverdrup's expedition. Like the whole group of Svendrup Islands, it was also taken over by Svendrup for Norway . This clashed with Canada's belief that all discovered and undiscovered areas in the north of the Americas belonged to Canada. Negotiations ended in 1930. From then on, the island was part of the Northwest Territories of Canada. When the area of the Northwest Territories was reduced on April 1, 1999, the island came under the administration of the newly created territory of Nunavut.
Much of the island consists of flat terrain made of sedimentary rock. The central area is an eroded mountain area that forms a 240 meter high plateau. The island reaches its greatest heights in four flat knolls, the Isachsen Dome (with 260 meters the highest point on the island), Salt Dome, Malloch Dome and Hoodoo Dome.
The unmanned today weather station Isachsen located on the west coast of the otherwise uninhabited island at 78 ° 47 '10 " N , 103 ° 31' 0" W .
The magnetic north pole migrated north-northwest across the island in 1994.
Web links
- The Atlas of Canada: Ellef Ringnes Island. In: atlas.gc.ca. Topographic map of Ellef Ringnes Island.
- The Ringnes Islands. In: arctic.uoguelph.ca. Descriptions and map.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manfred J. Müller: Handbook of selected climate stations on earth . In: Gerold Richter (Ed.): Soil erosion research center . 5th erg. And verb. Edition. Book 5. University of Trier FB VI, Trier 1996, ISBN 978-3-927079-05-2 .
- ^ Area of major sea islands, by region. In: statcan.gc.ca. Statistics Canada, March 10, 2005, accessed July 30, 2016 .