Queen Louise Land
| Queen Louise Land | |
|---|---|
| Dronning Louise Land | |
 Queen Louise Land and neighbouring areas | |
| Highest point | |
| Peak | Bramsen Bjerg |
| Elevation | 1,272 m (4,173 ft) |
| Dimensions | |
| Length | 185 km (115 mi) N/S |
| Width | 73 km (45 mi) E/W |
| Area | 12,000 km² |
| Geography | |
  Queen Louise Land Location | |
| Country | Greenland |
Queen Louise Land (Template:Lang-da)[1] is a vast mountainous region located west of Dove Bay, King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.
History
This remote area was named by the ill-fated 1906–08 Denmark Expedition as Dronning Louises Land after Louise of Sweden (1851–1926), wife of King Frederick VIII of Denmark.[2] Danish Arctic explorer Alf Trolle claimed that it had been originally named as Den Store Nanuták.[3]
Queen Louise Land was visited by the 1952–54 British North Greenland Expedition led by Commander James Simpson.
Geography
Queen Louise Land is a clearly delimited and extensive area made up of several very large and numerous small nunataks. Its western limit is the Greenland ice sheet and its western boundaries are the massive Storstrommen and L. Bistrup Brae glaciers. The area of Queen Louise Land is uninhabited.[4]
The main geographic divisions or parts of Queen Louise Land from north to south are:
- Ymer Nunatak, a large nunatak located at the northern end.
- Central Queen Louise Land, the central part or Queen Louise Land proper.
- Carlsbergfondet Land, the SW part of Dronning Louise Land, between Borgjøkel and A.B. Drachmann Glacier.
- Eventyrfjelde, the southernmost part of Dronning Louise Land, south of A.B. Drachmann Glacier.
Glaciers and ice caps
- A.B. Drachmann Glacier, located in the southern part.
- Ad Astra ice cap (Ad Astra Iskappe), large ice cap in the northern area.
- Admiralty Glacier, located in the northern part.
- Borgjøkel, a glacier in the central part.
- Britannia Glacier, between Ymer Nunatak and the northern end of main Queen Louise Land.
- Budolfi Isstrøm, a glacier in the southern part.
- Suzanne Brae, a branch of Britannia Glacier.
Mountains, nunataks and cliffs
Many of the mountains and massifs are little glaciated; the average elevation is around 1,500 m.
- Gundahl Knold
- Hjelmen
- Iuel-Brockdorff Bjerg
- Himmerland Hede, a plateau
- Prinsessen
- Zebra Cliff, the northern cliff of Iuel-Brockdorff Bjerg
Bibliograpy
- Gregson, J. 2001b: Dronning Louise Land, new routes. American Alpine Journal 2001, 258 only.
- Peacock, J.D. 1958: Some investigations into the geology and petrography of Dronning Louise Land, N.E. Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 157(4), 139 pp.
- Trolle, A. 1913: Hydrographical observations from the Danmark Expedition. Meddelelser om Grønland 41(2), 271–426.
- Lister, H. and Wyllie, P. J. (1957) The geomorphology of Dronning Louise Land. Meddelelser om Grønland. Vol.158. No.1. C.A. Reitzel , København.
- Spencer Apollonio, Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland, 2008
See also
References
- ^ "Dronning Louise Land". Mapcarta. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
- ^ "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
- ^ Trolle, A. 1909: The Danish North-East Greenland Expedition. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society 25, 57–70.
- ^ Google Earth
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