Frænkel Land

Frænkel Land
	Frænkel Land
Geography
Location	East Greenland
Coordinates	73°16′N 27°15′W
Adjacent bodies of water	Jaette Glacier; Isfjord; Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord; Akuliarutsip Sermerssua; Gregory Glacier
Length	50 km (31 mi)
Width	40 km (25 mi)
Highest elevation	2,943 m (9,656 ft)
Highest point	Petermann Peak
Administration
	Greenland (Denmark)
Zone	NE Greenland National Park
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

Frænkel Land is a peninsula in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.

History

It was named Frænkels Halfö by A.G. Nathorst on his 1899 expedition after Knut Frænkel, the Swedish engineer and meteorologist on Andrée's balloon expedition to the North Pole. Nathorst's expedition was searching for traces of the lost Andrée expedition.[1]

Petermann Peak was named by the Second German North Polar Expedition 1869–70 as Petermanns Spitze in honour of the initiator of the expedition, August Heinrich Petermann.

Geography

Frænkel Land is bounded by the inner reaches of Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord in the south, with the Nordenskiöld Glacier (Akuliarutsip Sermerssua) in the southwest, the Gregory Glacier and the Magog Nunatak in the west, the Jætte Glacier in the north and northwest, and the Isfjord in the northeast.[2]

2940 m high Petermann Peak (Danish: Petermann Bjerg), one of the highest mountains in Greenland,[3] rises in the southwesternmost part of Frænkel Land at 73°05′N 28°37′W. Louise Boyd Land is located to the northwest.

Map of Northeastern Greenland

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References

"Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
"Frænkel Land". Mapcarta. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
"Cambridge East Greenland Expedition, 1929: Ascent of Petermann Peak". The Geographical Journal, Vol. 75, No. 6 (Jun., 1930), pp. 481-502. Retrieved 26 June 2016.

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[cat-1] "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 7 July 2019.

[mapcarta-2] "Frænkel Land". Mapcarta. Retrieved 7 July 2019.

[jstor1-3] "Cambridge East Greenland Expedition, 1929: Ascent of Petermann Peak". The Geographical Journal, Vol. 75, No. 6 (Jun., 1930), pp. 481-502. Retrieved 26 June 2016.