Devil Island (Greenland) Explained

Djævleøen
Sobriquet:Devil Island
Map:Greenland
Location:Dove Bay
Greenland Sea
Coordinates:76.4°N -40°W
Area Km2:39.5
Length Km:11
Width Km:4
Coastline Km:49
Elevation M:732
Country:Greenland
Country Admin Divisions Title:Zone
Country Admin Divisions:Northeast Greenland National Park
Population:0

Devil Island (Danish: Djævleøen) is an uninhabited island of King Frederick VIII Land, NE Greenland.

History

The island was named Djævleøen, meaning "Devil Island",[1] by the 1932 Gefion expedition. It had been previously also known as "Teufelkap Island" —a name used by Georg Carl Amdrup in 1913— because of the Teufelkap, its conspicuous eastern headland that had been previously named by the Second German North Polar Expedition led by Carl Koldewey.[2]

The curved horse-shoe shaped northern part of the island was named Hestefoden by the 1906–08 Danmark expedition, because the devil (Danish: djævle) is often represented as having hooved feet.[3]

Geography

The island lies in the southwestern area of Dove Bay. To the north lie the Licht Islands and to the west Godfred Hansen Island. To the south lies Nanok Island, separated from Djævleøen by the A. Stelling Sound, and further south Tvillingerne.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Djævleøen. Mapcarta. 11 July 2019.
  2. https://archive.org/stream/meddelelseromgr451912denm/meddelelseromgr451912denm_djvu.txt Amdrup, G. 1913: Report on the Danmark Expedition to the northeast coast of Greenland 1906–08. Meddelelser om Grønland 41(1), 270 pp
  3. Web site: Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland . Geological Survey of Denmark . 9 July 2019.
  4. Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 125