Hovgaard Islands
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| Waters | Rasmussen Basin , Arctic Ocean | |
| archipelago | Canadian Arctic Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 29 ′ N , 95 ° 42 ′ W | |
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| Number of islands | 3 | |
| Main island | Aqitqiqtuun Island | |
| Total land area | 10 km² | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Hovgaard Islands ( German Hovgaard Islands ) are an uninhabited group of islands in the Kitikmeot region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut .
geography
They are located 17 kilometers southeast of Gjoa Haven in the western part of the Rasmussen Basin . King William Island is 14 miles away and Ogle Point on the Adelaide Peninsula is 17.5 km away. Astrup Island is 18 kilometers northeast . The archipelago consists of three larger and some smaller islands. The three larger ones are elongated and oriented parallel to the coast of King William Island in a southwest-northeast direction. The main island is Aqitqiqtuun Island with 6.06 km² in the northeast ( location ) , the second largest an unnamed island a few meters south of the main island with 2.03 km² ( location ) , and the third with 1.99 km² Aqitgian Island ( location ) in the southwest.
The highest point of the archipelago is in the southwest of Aqitgian Island (more than 30 meters, but less than 40 meters). The other two main islands rise over 10 meters in several places, but nowhere do they reach 20 meters in height.
Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap
history
Before the arrival of Europeans, the islands and the surrounding waters were already popular hunting grounds for the indigenous Inuit because of their abundance of marine mammals and caribou . In 1903 Roald Amundsen reached the area on his journey through the Northwest Passage with the Gjøa and spent two winters in Gjøahavn (now Gjoa Haven) under the protection of the Hovgaard Islands. Two members of his expedition, Godfred Hansen and Peder Ristvedt (1873–1955), visited the archipelago in March 1904 and carried out their first survey . It bears its name in honor of the Danish naval officer and polar explorer Andreas Peter Hovgaard . From 1878 to 1880 he had accompanied Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld on his journey through the Northeast Passage with the Vega as a lieutenant and later led an expedition himself into the Kara Sea .
Web links
- Hovgaard Islands in the Atlas of Canada
Individual evidence
- ↑ PNAS Islands Database : These islands are not named in the database, they are IDs 26571, 26544 and 26549
- ↑ a b Atlas of Canada , Note: Enter "Hovgaard Islands, Nunavut (Island)" (or "Aqitqiqtuun Island" and "Aqitgian Island") in the "Find a Location" field
- ↑ L. Brown and H. Fast: An overview of important ecological and biological marine features in Nunavut based on local knowledge (PDF; 15 MB). Canadian Manuscript Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2976, 2012, p. 14
- ^ Roald Amundsen: The Northwest Passage. My polar voyage on the Gjöa 1903–1907 , along with an appendix by Prime Lieutenant Godfred Hansen. Albert Langen Verlag for Literature and Art, Munich 1908, p. 484 .