Lambert Land
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Location Lambert-Lands |
Lambert Land is a region in Northeast Greenland National Park .
The predominantly non- glaciated area on the coast of the Greenland Sea is enclosed by the ice-filled Nioghalvfjerdsfjord in the north and the Zachariae ice stream in the south. Lambert-Land has an extension of 65 km in east-west and 55 km in north-south direction. Its eastern tip is almost cut off from the hinterland by the narrow Jomfru-Tidsfordriv fjord. The snow-capped mountains Lambert-Lands, Misanthropen Fjelde and the 1023 m high Trumpeter Bastion are named after sled dogs from the Danmark Expedition 1906–1908, whose leader Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen and cartographer Niels Peter Høeg-Hagen perished on the Nioghalvfjerdsfjord . The sledge driver Jørgen Brønlund reached the supply depot at Cape Bergendahl in the southeast of Lambert Land, where his body was found and buried in 1908. The cape is now called Brønlund's grave .
The name Lambert-Land first appeared on a Dutch map from the early 18th century. It is said to have been sighted by a whaler of that name in 1670 . In 1980, ruins of Paleo-Eskimo settlements were found in Lambert Land.
Individual evidence
- ^ Lambert Land . In: Anthony K. Higgins: Exploration history and place names of northern East Greenland. (= Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 21, 2010). Copenhagen 2010, ISBN 978-87-7871-292-9 (English), accessed February 9, 2014
- ↑ Misanthropen Fjelde and Trumpeter Bastion . In: Anthony K. Higgins: Exploration history and place names of northern East Greenland. (= Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 21, 2010). Copenhagen 2010, ISBN 978-87-7871-292-9 (English), accessed February 9, 2014
- ^ Lambert Land . In: The Store Danske Encyklopædi (Danish)
Coordinates: 79 ° 15 ′ N , 20 ° 40 ′ W