Wegener Peninsula

Wegener Peninsula

Wegener Halvø
Wegener Peninsula Sentinel-2 image
Location within Greenland
Geography
Location	East Greenland
Coordinates	71°40′50″N 22°44′45″W
Adjacent to	Fleming Fjord Davy Sound Nathorst Fjord
Length	27 km (16.8 mi)
Width	9 km (5.6 mi)
Highest elevation	975 m (3199 ft)
Administration
Greenland (Denmark)
Zone	Northeast Greenland National Park
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

Wegener Peninsula (Danish: Wegener Halvø) is a peninsula in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.

History

This peninsula was named during the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland by Arne Noe-Nygaard (1908-1991). He named it after German scientist Alfred Wegener (1880–1930), who had taken part in the 1906–08 Danmark Expedition and the 1912–13 Danish Expedition to Queen Louise Land led by J.P. Koch. Wegener died in 1930 on the Greenland ice sheet during the Wegener Expedition led by himself.

Geography

The peninsula is bounded in the northwest by the Fleming Fjord, Kap Brown is the point to the northeast, jutting into the Davy Sound to the south of Cape Biot. The Nathorst Fjord extends on the southeastern side and to the southwest the Wegener Peninsula is connected to the mainland.

Bibliography

• A. K. Higgins, Jane A. Gilotti, M. Paul Smith (eds.), The Greenland Caledonides: Evolution of the Northeast Margin of Laurentia.

External links

• Journey across the nunataks of central east Greenland, 1951