Nordostrundingen

81.440277777778 -11.489444444444Coordinates: 81 ° 26 ′ 25 ″ N , 11 ° 29 ′ 22 ″ W.

Nordostrundingen

Nordostrundingen ( Danish correct Nordøstrundingen ) is the easternmost point of Greenland and at the same time the easternmost point of North America and the American double continent . It is located at the eastern end of the Prinsesse Dagmar Halvø peninsula , Kronprins Christians Land , in the almost deserted Northeast Greenland National Park , which does not belong to any municipality , 89 kilometers east of Station Nord , and in the extreme northeast of the former administrative district of Tunu (East Greenland). The point is further east than Iceland .

Small icebergs can often be seen on this coast, calving from the Flade Isblink glacier and running aground some distance from the coast. There are no large icebergs here, although there are numerous active glaciers.

Nordostrundingen separates the Greenland Sea in the south from the Wandelsee in the north. The sea route from the Atlantic to the Arctic Ocean is called the Fram Strait . On the eastern coast of the Greenland Sea opposite, about 435 km away, is Spitzbergen .

Nordostrundingen was first discovered and named by Europeans during the failed Danmark expedition led by Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen in August 1906 with a sledge . Until then, it was not known that Greenland extends that far to the east at this point. The expedition made a return depot there before splitting into two groups (one towards Independence Fjord , the other over sea ice towards Pearyland ).

The area was also toured by the Danish Alabama expedition in 1910, led by Ejnar Mikkelsen, in search of traces of Mylius-Erichsen, with records of the earlier expedition being found.

However, the site was already known to the Thule culture , as archaeological artifacts were found nearby, and probably also to the Independence I culture (found around 80 km to the west).

The area is covered by the Sirius patrol .