Ymer Island
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| Waters | Greenland Sea | |
| Geographical location | 73 ° 9 ′ N , 24 ° 20 ′ W | |
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| length | 93.5 km | |
| width | 43.1 km | |
| surface | 2 437 km² | |
| Highest elevation | Angelin Bjerg 1900 m |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
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Ymer Island ( Danish Ymer Ø , sometimes also referred to as Ymers ) is an uninhabited island in the Greenland Sea that belongs to Greenland . It is located almost 300 km north of Ittoqqortoormiit (Scoresbysund) in front of the east coast of Greenland, which is strongly divided by fjords and islands, in the area of Foster Bay, and five to six kilometers from the coast of Andrée Land . The mountainous island is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park . It is separated from mainland Greenland by the Kaiser-Franz-Joseph-Fjord . It is divided into two halves by the Dusén Fjord, which runs in an east-west direction and is only connected by an isthmus in the west, about 7.7 km wide, which extends over the Noa Dal , Noa Sø and Noa Pas extends to Blomsterbugt . The smaller northern part of the double island is called Gunnar Andersson Land after the Swedish botanist and geographer Carl Filip Gunnar Andersson (1865–1928) . At the exit of the Dusén Fjord - between Cape Graah and Cape Wijkander - there are two small islands, the Vinterøer, in extension of Gunnar-Andersson-Land.
Its southern neighbor is the Geographical Society Ø , from which the Ymer Island is separated by the Sofia Sound, which is 52 kilometers long and between 2.5 and 5 km wide . The Ymer Island has an area of 2,437 km² and reaches an altitude of 1900 m above sea level in Angelin Bjerg in the center of the southern part of the island. It is named after the two-sex primeval giant Ymir .
In 1931, Gunnar Säve-Söderbergh found the first known fossils of the early land vertebrate Ichthyostega on the island .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ UNEP Islands (English)
- ^ H. Blom: Taxonomic Revision of the LATE Devonian Tetrapod Ichthyostega from East Greenland (PDF; 1.2 MB). In: Palaeontology. Volume 48, No. 1, 2005, pp. 111-134.