Amdrup Land Explained

Amdrup Land
Map:Greenland
Location:East Greenland
Coordinates:80.7833°N -37°W
Length Km:100
Width Km:50
Highest Mount:Unnamed
Elevation M:590
Waterbody:

Flade Isblink
Ingolf Fjord
Antarctic Bay
Greenland Sea

Country:Greenland (Denmark)
Country Admin Divisions Title:Zone
Country Admin Divisions:NE Greenland National Park
Population:Uninhabited

Amdrup Land is a land area in the Crown Prince Christian Land peninsula, King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland.[1] Administratively it belongs to the NE Greenland National Park area.

Numerous fossils of the Carboniferous and Palaeozoic periods have been found in Amdrup Land, including fossil algae and fishes.[2]

Geography

Amdrup Land is largely unglaciated. It is bound in the north by the large Flade Isblink ice cap, in the east by Antarctic Bay of the Greenland Sea and in the south by the Ingolf Fjord, on the other side of which rises Holm Land.

The Henrik Krøyer Holme island group lies off its southeastern point. To the northwest rise the Princess Elizabeth Alps.[3]

History

Amdrup Land was named by the 1906-1908 Denmark expedition after Georg Carl Amdrup, a member of the expedition committee.[4]

The 1938–39 Mørkefjord expedition found numerous stone mounds which proved to be ancient Inuit meat caches at a place named Kødgravene, in the northeastern shore of Amdrup Land. Archaeological remains of an Inuit settlement were found at Sommerterrassen, north of Cape Jungersen in the SE coast.[5] [6]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Amdrup Land. GeoHack. 18 June 2021.
  2. https://geusjournals.org/index.php/ggub/article/view/6322 Carboniferous algal microflora, Kap Jungersen and Foldedal Formations, Holm Land and Amdrup Land, eastern North Greenland
  3. [Google Earth]
  4. https://archive.org/stream/greenland00vahl_0/greenland00vahl_0_djvu.txt Full text of "Greenland" - Internet Archive
  5. Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
  6. 10.1016/j.jaa.2020.101169 . Uncovering their tracks: Intra-site behaviour at a Paleo-Inuit multiple dwelling site . 2020 . Coulson . Sheila . Andreasen . Claus . Journal of Anthropological Archaeology . 58 . 101169 . 219509308 . free .