Charcot Land

Charcot Land is a peninsula of Eastern Greenland, part of the Scoresby Sound system. It lies in the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.

Charcot Land
View of the Daugaard-Jensen Glacier at the head of Nordvestfjord. The shady mountain slope on the right is part of Charcot Land.
Charcot Land
Geography
LocationEast Greenland
Coordinates72°15′N 29°0′W
Adjacent bodies of water
Length35 km (21.7 mi)
Width20 km (12 mi)
Highest elevation1,553 m (5095 ft)
Administration
Greenland (Denmark)
ZoneNE Greenland National Park
Demographics
PopulationUninhabited

The area is remote and uninhabited. It was named after French Polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867–1936) during aerial surveys by Lauge Koch as part of the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland.

Geography

Charcot Land is a mountainous region. It is bound to the south by the Daugaard-Jensen Glacier, beyond which lies Hinksland. To the north lies the F. Graae Glacier and to the east the head of the Nordvestfjord, its easternmost point being a headland named Kap Ursus Major.[1]

To the west are a number of nunataks and the Greenland ice sheet.[2]

Bibliography

  • A. K. Higgins, Jane A. Gilotti, M. Paul Smith (eds.), The Greenland Caledonides: Evolution of the Northeast Margin of Laurentia.

References

  1. "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
  2. "Charcot Land". Mapcarta. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
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