Geographical Society Ø
| Geographical Society Ø | ||
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| Waters | Greenland Sea | |
| Geographical location | 72 ° 57 ′ N , 23 ° 15 ′ W | |
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| length | 95 km | |
| width | 33 km | |
| surface | 1 717 km² | |
| Highest elevation | Svedenborg Bjerg 1730 m |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Geographical Society Ø ( Danish also Geografisk Samfund Ø ) is a 1,717 km² large island in northeast Greenland . The island was named after the Royal Geographical Society in 1899 by Alfred Gabriel Nathorst .
The island, which administratively belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park, is located south of the Ymer Island and north of the Traill Island , separated from them by the Sofia and Vega Sound. To the west, on the other side of the König-Oskar-Fjord, is Ella Ø .
The highest point of the mountainous island is Svedenborg Bjerg in the west with 1730 m.
geology
From west to east the island consists of sandstone rocks from the Devonian , Carboniferous and Cretaceous ages, some smaller areas have sandstone from the Triassic and Jurassic .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Per Ivar Haug: Gazetteer of Greenland ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (= Til Oppslysning 15). Universitetsbiblioteket i Trondheim, Trondheim 2005. ISBN 82-7113-114-1 (English)
- ↑ Svedenborg Fjeld at Peakbagger.com (English)
- ^ Geographical Society Ø . In: Anthony K. Higgins: Exploration history and place names of northern East Greenland. (= Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 21, 2010). Copenhagen 2010, ISBN 978-87-7871-292-9 (English), accessed December 28, 2013
- ↑ Segment 12 ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
