Daugaard-Jensen Land

Daugaard-Jensen Land
	Daugaard-Jensen Land NASA picture
	Daugaard-Jensen Land
Geography
Location	NW Greenland
Coordinates	80°19′N 61°30′W
Adjacent bodies of water	Cass Fjord; Kennedy Channel; Bessel Fjord; Aleqatsiaq Fjord
Length	120 km (75 mi)
Width	90 km (56 mi)
Highest elevation	1,066 m (3,497 ft)
Administration
	Greenland (Denmark)
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

Daugaard-Jensen Land, (Danish: Daugård-Jensen Land), is a peninsula in northwestern Greenland. It is a part of the Avannaata municipality.[1]

Daugaard-Jensen Land was named in honour of Jens Daugaard-Jensen (1871–1938), who was Inspector of Greenland between 1900 and 1912.

Geography

Daugaard-Jensen Land is located between Washington Land and the Petermann Glacier. The Cass Fjord is at the southern end, beyond which lies the Humboldt Glacier.[2] The Pentamerus Range is located in the middle/northern region.[1]

The northern coast runs between Aleqatsiaq Fjord and Bessel Fjord, east of which the Petermann Peninsula extends northwards.[3]

Map of part of Ellesmere Island and far Northern Greenland.

H.P. Trettin (ed.), Geology of the Innuitian Orogen and Arctic Platform of Canada and Greenland. Geological Survey of Canada (1991) ISBN 978-0660131313

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