Hovgaard Ø
| Hovgaard Ø | ||
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| Waters | Greenland Sea | |
| Geographical location | 79 ° 54 ′ N , 18 ° 30 ′ W | |
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| length | 60 km | |
| width | 42 km | |
| surface | 1 700 km² | |
| Highest elevation | 1086 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Hovgaard Ø ( German Hovgaard Island ) is a large uninhabited island off the east coast of Greenland . Administratively, it belonged to the province of Tunu ("East Greenland") until the end of 2008 , and since 2009 to the non-parish area of the Northeast Greenland National Park .
geography
The island is located in the Greenland Sea , about ten kilometers east of Skallingen in the southern Crown Prince Christian Land and about as far south of the Holmland peninsula. It is separated from these and the island of Lynn Ø by the Dijmphna Sound. In the south, the island borders the Nioghalvfjerdsfjord (97-Fjord), behind which Lambert Land lies. Hovgaard Ø is about 60 km long and up to 42 km wide in a southwest-northeast direction. Its highest point is given as 1086 meters above sea level.
Most of the island is covered by an ice cap , but there are also larger ice-free areas, especially in the southwest. The floating glacier tongue of the Nioghalvfjerdsfjord glacier reaches as far as the southwest coast of the island and penetrates with the Spalt glacier into the Dijmphna Sound. In contrast, the sea off the northeast tip of Hovgaard Ø is mostly free of ice. This is where the north-east water begins , a regularly occurring polynya that extends to north-east rounding.
history
Hovgaard Ø is named after the Danish naval officer Andreas Peter Hovgaard , who led a research expedition into the Kara Sea with the steamship Dijmphna in 1882/83 . The north-west coast of the island was explored in 1907 by Alfred Wegener , who discovered Lynn Ø. In 1910, Ejnar Mikkelsen and Iver Iversen (1884–1968), two participants in the Danish Alabama expedition on the island, fought against impending starvation. Mikkelsen wrote about the inhospitable island: "... and the name of Hovgaard Island will forever be the epitome of hunger, lack, cold and worry."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map of the northeast coast of Greenland (PDF; 6.34 MB), accessed on August 13, 2014
- ↑ Hovgaard Ø . In: Anthony K. Higgins: Exploration history and place names of northern East Greenland. (= Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin Vol. 21, 2010). Copenhagen 2010, ISBN 978-87-7871-292-9 (English), accessed August 13, 2014
- ^ G. Amdrup : Report on the Danmark Expedition to the North-East Coast of Greenland 1906-1908 . In: Meddelelser om Grønland . Vol. 41, 1913, pp. 143-147 .
- ↑ Ejnar Mikkelsen: An arctic Robinson , FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1913, p. 242