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Island map (left) and coast map (right) Ammassalik wooden maps are carved, tactile maps of the Greenlandic coastlines. In the 1880s, Gustav Holm led an expedition to the Ammassalik coast of eastern Greenland, where he met several Tunumiit, or Eastern Greenland Inuit communities, who had had no prior direct contact with Europeans.
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Some may have been purely mythical, such as the Isle of Demons near Newfoundland, which may have been based on local legends of a haunted island.The far-northern island of Thule was reported to exist by the 4th-century BC Greek explorer Pytheas, but information about its purported location was lost; explorers and geographers since have speculated that it was the Shetland Islands, Iceland ...
Scoresby Sound (Danish: Scoresby Sund, Greenlandic: Kangertittivaq) is a large fjord system of the Greenland Sea on the eastern coast of Greenland. It has a tree-like structure, with a main body approximately 110 km (68 mi) [ 2 ] long that branches into a system of fjords covering an area of about 38,000 km 2 (14,700 sq mi).
Dickson Fjord is in the northernmost area of the King Oscar Fjord system. It is the biggest branch of Kempe Fjord.Its mouth opens on the northern side at the western end of the fjord, where there is a junction of three branches, the other two being Röhss Fjord and Rhedin Fjord.
Main Vein (a quartz-gold vein), outcrop exposure at Nalunaq Gold Mine, southern Greenland Inoceramus steenstrup, world's largest fossil mollusk, found on the Nuussuaq Peninsula in western Greenland. Greenland is the largest island on Earth. Only one-fifth of its surface area is exposed bedrock, the rest being covered by ice.
Ittoqqortoormiit is located on Liverpool Land, east of Hurry Inlet near the mouth of the northern shore of the Kangertittivaq fjord, which empties into the Greenland Sea. [4] The time zone in Ittoqqortoormiit is UTC-02:00, the same as most of Greenland's population. [5] Until March 2024 it had previously been one hour ahead of most of Greenland.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Greenland Sea: ... Map of NE Greenland and Iceland. See also