Hinksland Explained

Hinksland
Map:Greenland
Location:East Greenland
Coordinates:71.7167°N -47°W
Length Km:64
Width Km:41
Highest Mount:Hinksland HP
Elevation M:2316
Waterbody:

Nordvestfjord
Flyver Fjord

Country:Greenland (Denmark)
Country Admin Divisions Title:Zone
Country Admin Divisions:Northeast Greenland National Park

Hinksland (Danish: Hinksland) is a peninsula in eastern Greenland. It is a part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.

The peninsula is named after Arthur R. Hinks, Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, 1915–45.

Geography

Hinksland is limited to the northwest by the Daugaard-Jensen Glacier, beyond which lies Charcot Land, to the northeast by the Nordvestfjord of the Scoresby Sound and to the south by the 2adj=midNaNadj=mid Flyver Fjord. To the southwest the peninsula is attached to the mainland. The Renland peninsula lies to the southeast, beyond Th. Sørensen Land and Nathorst Land to the north, across the Nordvestfjord.[1] The highest point of the peninsula is a 700m (2,300feet) mountain located in the southern part rising above the Flyver Fjord.[2]

Geologically Hinksland is part of the Vestfjord-Hinksland gneiss and schist zone crystalline complex.[3]

Hinksland is at the southern limit of the eastern coastal area of the Northeast Greenland National Park. Constable Point (Nerlerit Inaat) is the closest airport.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hinksland. Mapcarta. 17 April 2016.
  2. Web site: Glacial outburst floods at Renland, Greenland? . 2016-04-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160420002910/http://www.tudelft.nl/fileadmin/Faculteit/CiTG/Over_de_faculteit/Afdelingen/Afdeling_Geoscience_and_Remote_Sensing/Study/Thesis/BscRenland.pdf . 2016-04-20 . dead .
  3. Harold Williams ed. Geology of the Appalachian—Caledonian Orogen in Canada and Greenland, p. 898