Johannes-V.-Jensen-Land
Johannes-V.-Jensen-Land is the name of the northern part of the Pearyland peninsula in the far north of Greenland . It is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean and to the south by the Frederick E. Hyde Fjord and measures around 105 kilometers in an east-west direction and around 55 kilometers in a north-south direction.
The country is named after the Danish Nobel Prize for Literature carrier Johannes Vilhelm Jensen named; it is the northernmost territory on earth. The region was sparsely populated in prehistoric times, but has been uninhabited since around 1400 AD. The remains of the settlement at Frigg Fjord are the northernmost known human settlement in history. The basic diet of the residents was probably the hunt for musk ox ; Herds of musk ox still live in the region today.
Pictures from the Johannes-V.-Jensen-Land
literature
- Bjarne Grønnow, Jens Fog Jensen: The Northernmost Ruins of the Globe. Eigil Knuth's Archaeological Investigations in Peary Land and Adjacent Areas of High Arctic Greenland (= Man & Society . Volume 29 ). Museum Tusculanums Forlag, Københavns Universitet , Copenhagen 2003, ISBN 978-87-635-3065-1 , The Northernmost Ruins of the Globe - Johannes V. Jensen Land, p. 219–237 (English, ku.dk [PDF; accessed December 26, 2012]).