Inglefield country
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Location of Inglefield Land |
The Inglefield Land ( Danish Inglefield Land ) is a no longer permanently inhabited region in northwest Greenland . The region forms the south coast of the Kane Basin (part of the Nares Strait ) and the north of the Hayes Peninsula (and therefore extends on the coast to Cape Alexander in the south) and measures about 200 in the east-west direction, in the north -South direction about 80 kilometers. To the northeast, Inglefield Land is bounded by the Humboldt Glacier and to the south by the Greenland Ice Sheet .
Despite its very northerly location, Inglefield Land is not glaciated due to low rainfall. The region is named after the British admiral and polar explorer Edward Inglefield . The geomagnetic North Pole , which was formerly in western Inglefield Land (1951: 77 ° 29 ′ N , 68 ° 54 ′ W ), has now migrated west to Ellesmere Island, Canada (2010: 80 ° 1 ′ N , 72 ° 13 ′ W ).
History and previous settlement
From a European perspective, Inglefield Land was only discovered in 1818. Located on the northern edge of the northern water , it has good hunting grounds and was continuously inhabited by Inuit in the past . Today the region is only visited in the summer by some families from Qaanaaq and the surrounding settlements or populated on a monthly basis. The earlier settlements of Annoatok , Inuarfissuaq , Qeqertaaraq, Qaqaatsut (in another spelling Qaqqaatsut) and Etah (the last to be abandoned in 1953) were the northernmost on earth. In the years 2004 to 2009, the Inglefield Land was the target of extensive archaeological investigations, which have given a lot of information about the earlier settlement ( "Inglefield Land Archeology Project" ).
The excavations at Qaqaitsut on the northeast coast of Inglefield Land were based on evidence from Inuit families who inhabited this very far north in summer. Quoting from the report below: “ Qaqaitsut on Paris Fjord in Eastern Inglefield Land was most recently inhabited, by at least four families, in the mid-1980s as part of an initiative by the community of Qaanaaq to 'live on the land'. Inughuit hunters reported the presence of archaeological remains to the Greenland National Museum at that time. ”
These archaeological legacies include so-called winter houses in Qaqaitsut, which were once inhabited all year round and thus the northernmost natural settlement in the world. It is 79 ° 7 '17 " N , 66 ° 50' 22" W .
Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap
literature
- Genevieve M. LeMoine, Christyann M. Darwent: The Inglefield-Land Archeology Project: Introduction and Overview . In: Geografisk Tidsskrift - Danish Journal of Geography , 110 (2), 2010, pp. 279-296.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jean Malaurie: Myth of the North Pole. 200 years of expedition history . National Geographic Germany, 2003, ISBN 3-936559-20-1 , p. 5
- ↑ Stefan Maus, Susan Macmillan, Susan McLean, Brian Hamilton, Manoj Nair, Alan Thomson, Craig Rollins: The US / UK World Magnetic Model for 2010–2015 . (PDF; 41.0 MB). Retrieved February 3, 2012
Coordinates: 78 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ N , 69 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ W.