Borup Island Explained

Borup Island
Local Name:Borup Ø
Image Map Size:270px
Image Map Caption:Map of Borup Island
Pushpin Map:Greenland
Pushpin Label:Borup Island
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Borup Island in Greenland
Location:Lincoln Sea
Area Km2:183
Length Km:30
Width Km:7
Coastline Km:68.2
Elevation M:945
Country:Greenland
Country Admin Divisions Title:Zone
Population:0

Borup Island (Danish: Borup Ø), also known as West Jensen Island, is an uninhabited island of the Lincoln Sea in Peary Land, far northern Greenland.

The island was formerly named after Danish zoologist Adolf Severin Jensen (1866 - 1953), professor at the University of Copenhagen, who had carried out extensive research on the fisheries of West Greenland, and who was a member of the committee of the 1931–34 Three-year Expedition (Treårsekspeditionen)

Geography

It is a long island off the western side of the Nansen Land Peninsula on the other side of the Thomas Thomsen Fjord, part of the De Long Fjord system. Its eastern shore forms the western side of Adolf Jensen Fjord (Qajuutaq) [1] beyond which lies slightly larger MacMillan Island. Smaller Hanne Island lies 3 km to the north.[2] East Jensen Island has an area of 161.4km2 and a shoreline of 68.2km (42.4miles).[3]

See also

Notes and References

  1. https://asiaq.maps.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=c5c7d9d52a264980a24911d7d33914b5 Nunat Aqqi; Stednavne
  2. Web site: Hanne Ø. Mapcarta. 11 April 2016.
  3. http://islands.unep.ch/ITP.htm UNEP