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Some locations on free, publicly viewable satellite map services have such issues due to having been intentionally digitally obscured or blurred for various reasons of this. [1] For example, Westchester County, New York asked Google to blur potential terrorism targets (such as an amusement park, a beach, and parking lots) from its satellite ...
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.
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.
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.
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -A luxury cruise ship that ran aground this week in a remote part of Greenland with 206 people on board was pulled free by a fishing trawler on Thursday. The Ocean Explorer ...
King Oscar Fjord is a major fjord system in NE Greenland. The main fjord is 10–25 km wide, bounded by Traill Island and Geographical Society Island in the east. In the inner and northern end of the fjord lies Ella Island. The Davy Sound at the southeastern end connects with the Greenland Sea after extending for about 20 km in a NW/SE ...
Greenland, a territory of Denmark, has seen an increasingly popular independence movement, according to Reuters. On Jan. 3, Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Egede expressed his desire to pursue ...