West Jensen Island

West Jensen Island (Danish: Vest Jensens Ø) is an uninhabited island of the Lincoln Sea in Peary Land, far northern Greenland.

West Jensen Island
Vest Jensens Ø
Satellite image of the northern end of Greenland
West Jensen Island
West Jensen Island (Greenland)
Geography
LocationLincoln Sea
Coordinates83°2′N 41°23′W
Area161.4 km2 (62.3 sq mi)
Length30 km (19 mi)
Width7 km (4.3 mi)
Coastline68.2 km (42.38 mi)
Highest elevation944.88 m (3,100 ft)
Administration
ZoneNortheast Greenland National Park
Demographics
Population0

The island was named after Danish zoologist Adolf Severin Jensen (1866 - 1953), professor at the University of Copenhagen, who had carried out extensive research on the fisheries of West Greenland, and who was a member of the committee of the 1931–34 Three-year Expedition (Treårsekspeditionen)

Geography

It is a long island off the western side of the Nansen Land Peninsula on the other side of the Thomas Thomsen Fjord, part of the De Long Fjord system. Its eastern shore forms the western side of Adolf Jensen Fjord, beyond which lies slightly larger East Jensen Island. Smaller Hanne Island lies 3 km to the north.[1] East Jensen Island has an area of 161.4 km2 (62.3 sq mi) and a shoreline of 68.2 km (42.4 mi).[2]

Map of Northern Ellesmere Island and far Northern Greenland.
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See also

References
  1. "Hanne Ø". Mapcarta. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  2. UNEP


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