Franske Islands , Danish : Franske Øer , French : Iles Françaises ; meaning 'French Islands', is a group of uninhabited islands of the Greenland Sea , Greenland . Administratively the islands belong to the Northeast Greenland National Park .
4-632: The Franske Islands lie off Jokel Bay , northeastern Greenland, just east of Schnauder Island and the Achton Friis Islands , between the Norske Islands to the north and the Danske Islands to the south. There are seven large islands in the group, as well as numerous smaller islands and islets. The Duke of Orléans Arctic Expedition had given the name "Iles Françaises"' to a group further south in 1905. A few years later
8-659: The Denmark Expedition transferred the name to the northernmost islands that the French expedition could have explored and named the group south of the Pariserøerne "Danske Islands". This Greenland location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Jokel Bay Jokel Bay ( Danish : Jøkelbugten ) is a large bay in North Eastern Greenland . The area of
12-618: The bay is uninhabited. Administratively Jokel Bay and its surroundings belong to the Northeast Greenland National Park . The bay was named after an old Norse word for glacier — Icelandic : Jökull — by the ill-fated Denmark expedition . Jokel Bay is clogged by fast ice the year round. Jokel Bay stretches for about 140 kilometers from north to south in the King Frederick VIII Land shore. Lambert Land and Schnauder Island lie at
16-522: The northern end by the Zachariae Isstrom glacier, while Duke of Orleans Land and Gamma Island are at the southern end. All along the shore of the bay the Greenland ice sheet reaches down to the sea between skerries and the coast is broken down into two alignments of small islands. The Pic de Gerlache , an important landmark for the first explorers of the area, rises from a nunatak
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