Germanialand

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Research station Danmarkshavn in the south of the region, September 2013
Germanialand (Greenland)
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Location Germanialands
Map section with Germanialand
Labeled satellite image, with Germania Land in the northeast

Germanialand ( Danish Germania Land ) is an uninhabited region in the Northeast Greenland National Park , about 10 ° north of the Arctic Circle .

geography

Germanialand forms the approx. 2400 km² eastern part of the peninsula between Dove Bay in the south and Skærsfjord in the north. Its western limit is the Valdemarsmuren - the eastern edge of the highlands of Søndermarken. The eastern limit is the coast of the Greenland Sea . The southernmost point is Cape Bismarck, the northernmost the Kajkap. Germanialand is mostly flat and mostly ice-free in summer, only in the north, which is characterized by low hills, there are two ice caps , the larger of which (Østtungerne) calves into the Fladebugt . The plains in the south have numerous rivers (including Østerelv, Westerelv and Stormelv) and lakes (Hulesøen, Termometersøen, Skibssø).

The Danmarkshavn weather station is permanently manned by eight people on the southeast coast of Germanialand .

history

On the coast there are traces of earlier Inuit settlement . From a European point of view, Germanialand was discovered in 1870 by the Second German North Polar Expedition . An excursion team led by Carl Koldewey and Julius Payer had moved almost 280 km north from the winter port of the expedition ship Germania near Sabine Island and had reached its northernmost point here. Germanialand was only named by the Danmark Expedition 1906-1908, which had its base camp in Danmarkshavn. Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen wanted to honor not only the participants of the expedition of 1869/70, but also his German expedition participant Alfred Wegener .

In 1938 the Norwegian-French polar expedition built their base station Micardbu on the east coast of Germanialand, of which only the foundations have been preserved.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Germania Land on Place names of northern East Greenland , accessed on June 23, 2019 (English)
  2. ^ Entry "Germania Land" in Anthony K. Higgins: Exploration history and place names of northern East Greenland (= Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 21, 2010), ISBN 978-87-7871-292-9 (English), p 177 f. ( PDF ; 12.3 MB).
  3. ↑ entry "Micardbu" in Anthony K. Higgins: exploration history and place names of northern East Greenland (= Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 21, 2010), ISBN 978-87-7871-292-9 (English), S. 253 ( PDF ; 12.3 MB).

Web links

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Coordinates: 77 ° 0 ′  N , 19 ° 0 ′  W