Princess Dagmar Island Explained

Princess Dagmar Island
Local Name:Prinsesse Dagmar Ø
Map:Greenland
Location:Wandel Sea
Coordinates:81.65°N -76°W
Area Km2:144.5
Length Km:21
Width Km:6
Elevation M:111.8
Country:Denmark
Country Admin Divisions Title:Zone
Country Admin Divisions:Northeast Greenland National Park
Population:0

Princess Dagmar Island (Danish: Prinsesse Dagmar Ø) is an uninhabited coastal island of the Wandel Sea in King Frederick VIII Land, Greenland.

The island was named after Princess Dagmar of Denmark.

The Danish military base/weather station Nord is located in the mainland east of the island, on the western side of Crown Prince Christian Land Peninsula.

In Vol. 14 of the Encyclopedia Arctica (unpublished, completed in 1951), Princess Dagmar Island is still not recognized as an island, but mentioned as a peninsula.[1]

Geography

Princess Dagmar Island is located to the southeast of Princess Thyra Island and to the south of Princess Margaret Island, close to the coast of Crown Prince Christian Land in far northeastern Greenland. The island lies in a bay of the Wandel Sea formed by the confluence of Denmark Sound and Independence Sound.[2] The island has an area of 144.5 km ² and has a shoreline of 55,8 kilometres.[3]

The region of Greenland where the island lies was part of Avannaa, originally Nordgrønland ("North Greenland"), a former county of Greenland until 31 December 2008.[4] The island is presently within the Northeast Greenland National Park.

See also

Notes and References

  1. http://collections.dartmouth.edu/arctica-beta/html/EA14-11.html Encyclopedia Arctica
  2. http://mapcarta.com/17866120 Prinsesse Dagmar Ø
  3. http://islands.unep.ch/ITP.htm UNEP
  4. Compiled by Per Ivar Haug . Ingar Lomheim . Islands . Gazetteer of Greenland . 15 . August 2005 . UBiT, Universitetsbiblioteket i Trondheim "University Library in Trondheim" . 1502-0800 . 82-7113-114-1 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110615162130/http://www.ntnu.no/ub/formidl/utgivelser/til_opplysning/to_nr15.php#umeny7 . 2011-06-15 .