Sweet country
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 59 ′ N , 26 ° 20 ′ W | |
| Waters 1 | Kaiser-Franz-Joseph-Fjord / Antarctic Sound | |
| Waters 2 | Kempefjord / Dicksonfjord | |
| length | 85 km | |
| width | 46 km | |
| surface | 2 400 km² | |
 Map sheet of East Greenland with SUESS LAND in the south |
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Suess-Land is an uninhabited region in Northeast Greenland National Park .
geography
Suess-Land is a peninsula in the extensive system of the Kaiser-Franz-Joseph-Fjord , south of Andrée-Land and north of Lyell-Land . It is bounded by the Kaiser-Franz-Joseph-Fjord and Antarctic-Sound in the north, by the Kempefjord and Dicksonfjord in the south and by the Kjerulffjord in the west. To the northeast is the Ymer Island , to the southeast the islands of Ruth Ø, Maria Ø and Ella Ø . Suess-Land has an alpine character. The highest peak is the Payerspitze ( Danish Payer Tinde ) in the north of the peninsula with a height of 2320 m. The interior of Suess-Land is largely glaciated , but the coast is not.
etymology
The Swedish polar explorer Alfred Gabriel Nathorst named the peninsula in 1899 after the Austrian geologist Eduard Suess . Nathorst had translated one of his books into Swedish.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Anthony K. Higgins: Exploration history and place names of northern East Greenland (= Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 21, 2010), ISBN 978-87-7871-292-9 (English). P. 122 ( PDF ; 12.3 MB).
- ↑ Map (PDF; 3.4 MB) of Northeast Greenland on a scale of 1: 1,000,000, De Nationale Geologiske Undersøgelser for Danmark og Grønland (GEUS).