Frænkel Land Explained

Frænkel Land
Map:Greenland
Location:East Greenland
Coordinates:73.2667°N -42°W
Length Km:50
Width Km:40
Highest Mount:Petermann Peak
Elevation M:2943
Waterbody:

Jaette Glacier
Isfjord
Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord
Akuliarutsip Sermerssua
Gregory Glacier

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

Frænkel Land is a peninsula in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.

History

It was named Frænkels Halfö by A.G. Nathorst on his 1899 expedition after Knut Frænkel, the Swedish engineer and meteorologist on Andrée's balloon expedition to the North Pole. Nathorst's expedition was searching for traces of the lost Andrée expedition.[1]

Petermann Peak was named by the Second German North Polar Expedition 1869–70 as Petermanns Spitze in honour of the initiator of the expedition, August Heinrich Petermann.

Geography

Frænkel Land is bounded by the inner reaches of Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord in the south, with the Nordenskiöld Glacier (Akuliarutsip Sermerssua) in the southwest, the Gregory Glacier and the Magog Nunatak in the west, the Jætte Glacier in the north and northwest, and the Isfjord in the northeast.[2]

2940 m high Petermann Peak (Danish: Petermann Bjerg), one of the highest mountains in Greenland,[3] rises in the southwesternmost part of Frænkel Land at 73.0833°N -65°W. Louise Boyd Land is located to the northwest.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland . Geological Survey of Denmark . 7 July 2019.
  2. Web site: Frænkel Land. Mapcarta. 7 July 2019.
  3. Web site: Cambridge East Greenland Expedition, 1929: Ascent of Petermann Peak. The Geographical Journal, Vol. 75, No. 6 (Jun., 1930), pp. 481-502. 26 June 2016.