Griffenfeld Island, Griffenfeldt Island,James Nicol, An Historical and Descriptive Account of Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands, p. 228 () or Umanaq ("the mountain in the shape of a heart"), after the name of the highest peak. is an uninhabited island in the Sermersooq municipality in southern Greenland. History The island was named after Danish Statesman Count Peder Griffenfeld (1635–1699) by Wilhelm August Graah during his 1829 expedition to the east coast of Greenland. Graah thought that he could see the distant Niviarsiat peaks, on the western side of the Greenland ice sheet, from the highest point of Griffenfeldt Island
Fridtjof Nansen discovered old Eskimo ruins at the foot of Umanaq mountain in 1882.Geographical Items on East Greenland : Encyclopedia Arctica 14
Knud Rasmussen visited the island in 1932, in the course of his Sixth Thule Expedition and described Griffenfeld Island as "barren and exposed to the fogs and winter ice of the sea".Spencer Apollonio, Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland, 2008 p. 204
Geography Griffenfeld Island is a coastal island located off King Frederick VI Coast in southeastern Greenland, separated from the mainland by a narrow sound. It lies south of the mouth of Sehested Fjord and Kattertooq, and north of the mouth of Timmiarmiut Fjord.GoogleEarth Its length is and its maximum width .Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 101
The island's coast is deeply indented and off its shore lie several small islets.
See also List of islands of Greenland
References
External links New insights on the north-eastern part of the Ketilidian orogen in South-East Greenland