Norske Islands

Norske Islands, Danish: Norske Øer; meaning 'Norse Islands', is a group of two uninhabited islands of the Greenland Sea, Greenland.

Norske Islands
Norske Øer
Norske Islands
Geography
LocationGreenland Sea
Coordinates79.09°N 17.80°W / 79.09; -17.80
Total islands2
Area200 km2 (77 sq mi)
Highest elevation499.8 m (1,639.8 ft)
Administration
ZoneNortheast Greenland National Park
Demographics
Population0

They were named by the Denmark expedition in honor of the two Norwegian expedition members.

Geography

The Norske Islands lie near Cape Drygalsky off the coast of Lambert Land and northeast of Jokel Bay, northeastern Greenland, to the southeast of the entrance to the Nioghalvfjerd Fjord of the Nioghalvfjerdsbrae glacier. The Franske Islands lie to the south, and the Achton Friis and Schnauder Islands to the southwest. Tobias Island lies far to the northeast.

There are two main islands in the group, Store Norske, with Cape Nansen as its northernmost landhead,[1] and a much smaller island (Lille Norske) to the south, separated from Store Norske by a narrow sound. There are also a few small islets. The group's southernmost landhead, Cape Amundsen, is located at the southern end of the smaller island.[2]

Store Norske, the largest island has a total area of 186.4 km2 (72.0 sq mi) and a shoreline of 68.9 km (42.8 mi).[3]

Map of Northeastern Greenland.
gollark: I think the problem might be `in`.
gollark: You are using JQuery's `text` thing. That escapes any HTML present.
gollark: > In May 1973, one month after he had finished coding the game, Yob went to a conference at Stanford University and discovered that in the section of the conference where the PCC had set up computer terminals, multiple players were engrossed in playing Wumpus, making it, in his opinion, a hit game.
gollark: Personally, I would rewrite this with Mithril.
gollark: Solution: install 2MB of random JS libraries

See also

References
  1. Norske Øer - Mapcarta
  2. Place names, NE Greenland
  3. UNEP
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.