Herluf Trolle Land
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Geography | |
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Location | Peary Land, Greenland |
Coordinates | 82°30′N 23°00′W / 82.500°N 23.000°W |
Adjacent to | Independence Fjord Wandel Sea G.B. Schley Fjord |
Length | 60 km (37 mi) |
Width | 50 km (31 mi) |
Highest elevation | 914 m (2999 ft) |
Highest point | Unnamed |
Administration | |
Greenland (Denmark) | |
Demographics | |
Population | Uninhabited |
Herluf Trolle Land is an area in Peary Land, North Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.[1][2]
The area has two clearly defined parts: Herlufsholm Strand, the flat southeasterly point of Peary Land, and the easternmost mountainous hinterland of the peninsula which rises to the north of Independence Fjord.[2]
History
There are ancient archaeological remains in the area, including the frame of a 10.6 metres (35 ft) long umiak and a number of camping grounds with abandoned utensils, that were found at excavations in Herlufsholm Strand. This coastal zone may be the first place of the eastward spreading of the early Arctic Whale Hunting Culture from Alaska.[3]
In 1900
The coast south of this cape was explored by
Geography
Herluf Trolle Land is located in southeastern Peary Land, on the northern side of the mouth area of the Independence Fjord. The limits of the territory are not clearly defined. To the west it is bounded by Melville Land, and to the north by the G.B. Schley Fjord.[5]
Herluf Trolle Land is the mountainous sector located to the west of Herlufsholm Strand. There are several low mountain ranges in the northeastern portion of the territory and two small ice caps. In the north a mountainous plateau rises to a height of 914 metres (2,999 ft) and 853 metres (2,799 ft) high Mount Clarence Wyckoff rises near Hellefisk Fjord. Except for these heights the area is largely ice-free. The plains bordering the mountain zone are crossed by numerous rivers.[6][5]
Herlufsholm Strand
The coastal zone is known as Herlufsholm Strand, a broad, low-lying strip of land between the Wandel Sea shore to the east and the mountains of the interior to the west. It extends between
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Bibliography
- H.P. Trettin (ed.), Geology of the Innuitian Orogen and Arctic Platform of Canada and Greenland. 1991
- B. Fristrup, Winderosion within the Arctic Deserts. 1953
- Bjarne Grønnow, Jens Fog Jensen: The Northernmost Ruins of the Globe. Eigil Knuth’s Archaeological Investigations in Peary Land and Adjacent Areas of High Arctic Greenland (= Man & Society. Vol. 29). Museum Tusculanums Forlag, Københavns Universitet, Copenhagen 2003,
See also
References
- ^ a b Nunat Aqqi; Stednavne
- ^ a b Google Maps
- ^ Eigil Knuth, Archaeology of Peary Land. Arctic, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Mar., 1952), pp. 17-33
- ^ Robert Edwin Peary Encyclopedia Arctica 15: Biographies
- ^ a b c Geographical Items on North Greenland - Encyclopedia Arctica 14
- ^ a b Greenland Pilot
- ^ Sedimentary Basins of North Greenland
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