Queen Louise Land

Queen Louise Land (; ) is a vast mountainous region located west of Dove Bay, King Frederik VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.

The highest point of Queen Louise Land is Gefiontinde, with a height of , the highest of the Gefiontinder group of peaks located at .Google EarthGreenland Expedition - Dronning Louise Land

Geologically Queen Louise Land is made up of orthogneiss overlain by sedimentary rocks.Harold Williams, Geology of the Appalachian—Caledonian Orogen in Canada and Greenland, p. 896]

History

This remote area was named Dronning Louises Land after Queen Louise of Denmark (1851–1926), wife of King Frederik VIII of Denmark, by the ill-fated 1906–08 Denmark Expedition —the expedition that aimed to map one of the last unknown parts of Greenland.The Wegener Diaries: Scientific Expeditions into the Eternal Ice Danish Arctic explorer Alf Trolle claimed that this area had been originally named as Den Store Nanuták —The Big Nunatak.Trolle, A. 1909: The Danish North-East Greenland Expedition. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society 25, 57–70.

Queen Louise Land was subsequently visited by the 1912–13 Danish Expedition to Queen Louise Land led by J.P. Koch, as well as the 1952–54 British North Greenland Expedition led by Commander James Simpson.British North Greenland Expedition, 1952–54 - Cambridge Journals

Geography Surrounded by ice masses, Queen Louise Land is clearly delimited. It is an extensive area made up of several very large and numerous small nunataks (summits or ridges of mountains that protrude from the ice). Its western boundary is the Greenland ice sheet and its eastern limits are the massive Storstrommen and L. Bistrup Brae glaciers. Kap Aage Bertelsen is a small headland at the confluence of the large Storstrømmen and L. Bistrup Bræ glaciers in the east. Dryasdal is a valley seasonally covered with Dryas octopetala flowers. The area of Queen Louise Land is uninhabited.

The main geographic divisions or parts of Queen Louise Land from north to south are: Ymer Nunatak, a large nunatak located at the northern end of Queen Louise Land, south of the Alabama Nunatak. The Suzanne Glacier flows to the south and from it flows the Britannia Glacier southwards into main Queen Louise Land.GEUS Map - Northern East Greenland; Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 21 Map 4 - 1:1 000 000 Central Queen Louise Land, the main part or Queen Louise Land proper. Carlsbergfondet Land, the southwestern part of Queen Louise Land, between Budolfi Isstrom and A.B. Drachmann Glacier. Eventyrfjelde, the southernmost part of Queen Louise Land, south of A.B. Drachmann Glacier.

Glaciers, ice caps, lakes and rivers

A.B. Drachmann Glacier, located in the southern part. Ad Astra Ice Cap (Ad Astra Iskappe), large ice cap in the northern central area. Admiralty Glacier, in the north of the central part. Army ice cap, in the central part. Borgjøkel, a glacier in the central part. Britannia Glacier, in the north. Britannia Sø, a lake. Budolfi Isstrøm, a glacier in the southern part. Ebbe Gletscher, a glacier in the southern part. Eigil Sø, a lake. Ejnar Gletscher, a glacier in the southern part. Farimagsø, a lake. Gultop Glacier, in the north. Hastings Glacier, in the NW. Kursbræ, a glacier in the southern part. Metafor Glacier Pony Glacier Shell ice cap, small ice cap in the central area. Søstersøer, twin lakes. Strandelv, a river. Sunderland Gletscher, in the NW. Suzanne Brae, a branch of Britannia Glacier. Trefork Glacier, in the central part. Trefork Sø, a large lake. Vedel Sø, a lake.

Mountains, nunataks and cliffs Many of the mountains and massifs are little glaciated. Mountains are generally rounded and rarely craggy, but there are numerous cliffs. The average elevation is around 1,500 m.

Barrieren (2,200 m) Bohr Bjerg Cloos Klippe, a cliff Curie Klippe, a cliff Dickens Bjerg Dannebrogsfjeldene, range east of Revaltoppe Dronningestolen Durham Klippe, a cliff Falkonerklippe, a nunatak Farvel Nunatak, nunatak group Fermi Klippe, cliff Gefiontinder (2,364 m), peak group Glückstadt Nunatak Grimm Fjelde, hilly area Gultop Gundahl Knold H.A. Jensen Bjerg H.C. Andersen Fjelde, hilly area Helgoland Henius Nunatak Hertugen, a dark peak Hjelmen Hvalryggen Juel-Brockdorff Nunatak Himmerland Hede, a plateau Kaldbakur, a nunatak Kap Bellevue Kap Weinschenck Kamæleon, a nunatak Kelvin Klippe, a cliff Krebs Bjerg Laub Nunataks, nunatak group Lembcke Bjerg, a nunatak Lodlineklippe, a cliff Monumentet, prominent rocky ridge by Pony Glacier Morænevolden, moraine ridge Newton Klippe, a cliff Olsen Nunataks, nunatak group Paletten, nunatak group Poulsen Nunataks, nunatak group Prins Axel Nunatak Prinsessen (1,907 m), spectacular ice-covered peak Prøvestenen, a nunatak Punktum (2,175 m), a nunatak Regnbueklippe, a cliff Revaltoppe (2,317 m), a nunatak Rutherford Bjerg Sankt Vitus Bjerg Savryggen, a nunatak Splinten, rocky ridge St. Andrews Klippe, a cliff Suzanne Nunatak Syvstjernen, nunatak group Thomson Klippe, a cliff Timeglasset, peak with two summits Trekanten, a nunatak Vinkelklippe, a cliff Winston Bjerg Zebra Klippe, the northern cliff of Juel-Brockdorff Nunatak

See also List of mountain ranges of Greenland List of Nunataks#Greenland

References

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