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39-545: Named after King Frederick VI of Denmark-Norway, the coast stretches for about 590 km (370 mi) south of the Arctic Circle . It is characterized by a succession of short fjords, steep mountains and small coastal islands. There is a narrow belt of ice-free land between the shore and the Inland ice cap, interrupted by active glaciers reaching the shore with the ice limit varying seasonally from year to year. Owing to

78-651: A comet using a telescope. His successors continued this until 1850. The prize was terminated in the aftermath of the Three Years' War . On 23 February 1827, he granted a Royal Charter giving Serampore College in Danish India the status of a university to confer degrees. It became the third Danish University after those in Copenhagen and Kiel . After the discovery of the Haraldskær Woman in

117-594: A conspiracy against him in the name of the Queen Dowager Juliana Maria, and in the early morning of 17 January 1772 Struensee was deposed in a palace coup . Struensee was later executed, while the King and Queen were divorced. Queen Caroline Mathilde was exiled, and the four-year-old Frederick and his sister were left behind, never to see their mother again. After the revolt against Struensee, Frederick's 18-year-old half-uncle Hereditary Prince Frederick

156-822: A marriage for him. There was speculation that he was to marry a Prussian princess, a choice supported by his step-grandmother Juliana Maria and her brother-in-law Frederick the Great . To demonstrate his independence, however, he personally selected his first-cousin Marie Sophie of Hesse-Kassel , a member of a German family with close marriage links with the royal families of both Denmark-Norway and Great Britain . They married in Gottorp on 31 July 1790 and had eight children. Their eldest daughter, Princess Caroline married her father's first cousin, Ferdinand, Hereditary Prince of Denmark . The youngest, Princess Wilhelmine , became

195-685: A peat bog in Jutland in the year 1835, Frederick VI ordered a royal interment in an elaborately carved sarcophagus for the Iron Age mummy, decreeing it to be the body of Queen Gunnhild . Later this identification proved incorrect, but the action suited his political agenda at the time. Frederick VI died at the age of 71 at Amalienborg Palace and was buried in Frederick V's chapel in Roskilde Cathedral . Frederick reigned over Denmark for

234-826: A total of 55 years; 24 years as crown prince regent and 31 years as king. He was the 894th Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in Spain and the 654th Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1822. The Royal Frederick University (now University of Oslo ) in Oslo was named in his honour. As Frederick VI had no surviving sons to succeed him, so he was succeeded on the throne of Denmark by his paternal half-first cousin Christian . Frederick VI and his wife Marie of Hesse-Kassel were

273-622: Is an island in the Sermersooq municipality in southeastern Greenland , with an area of 772 km (298.1 sq mi). Ammassalik Island is located in the King Christian IX Land region. Separating Ammassalik Island from the mainland of Greenland are the wide Sermilik Fjord in the west and the Ikaasartivaq Strait in the northeast. To the east and southeast, the progressively wider southern half of

312-617: The Ammassalik Fjord separates the island from the remainder of the eponymous Ammassalik Archipelago. Islands in the archipelago include Kulusuk Island , across the Torsuut Tunoq sound, and Apusiaajik Island , the largest. Ammassalik Island's southern coast borders the Irminger Sea , a marginal sea of the open North Atlantic . The town of Tasiilaq is located on the island's southeastern side. The highest point of

351-577: The French defeat in Russia in 1812, the Allies again asked him to change sides but he refused. Many historians portray the King as stubborn, incompetent, and motivated by a misconceived loyalty towards Napoleon. However, some historians in recent years have provided a different interpretation that sheds a better light on the King. He stayed with Napoleon in order to protect the exposed situation of Norway, which

390-649: The Graah Mountains and the Kangerluluk Range . The highest point in the coast is the magnificent Mount Paatusoq towering to a height of 2,488 m (8,163 ft) above the glacier at the head of the Paatusoq fjord. 63°0′N 42°0′W  /  63.000°N 42.000°W  / 63.000; -42.000 King Frederick VI Frederick VI ( Danish and Norwegian : Frederik ; 28 January 1768 – 3 December 1839)

429-682: The 1520s after the period of the Kalmar Union with other Scandinavian countries. However, Frederick's brother-in-law, Prince Christian Augustus of Augustenborg , was first elected to the throne of Sweden, followed by the French Marshal Bernadotte . During the Napoleonic Wars , he tried to maintain neutrality; however, after the British bombardment of Copenhagen , he allied Denmark-Norway with Napoleon . After

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468-512: The Crown Prince entered into a conspiracy with other disaffected persons who were in opposition to the government. Despite the Crown Prince's age, the government deliberately postponed his confirmation that would confirm his adult status. But in 1784, as Crown Prince Frederick turned 16, it could no longer be postponed, and he was finally confirmed on 4 April, and was declared of legal majority. Already, on 14 April 1784, he proceeded to seize

507-532: The Crown Prince, who was perceived as weak and needed to be strengthened physically and mentally. While Struensee was in power, the young Frederick was raised at Hirschholm Palace following an interpretation of the educational approach advocated by Rousseau in his famous work Émile . Instead of receiving direct instruction, Frederick was expected to learn everything through his own efforts through playing with two commoner boys as per Struensee's instructions. The general ill will against Struensee found expression in

546-821: The Danish authorities to settle in Skjoldungen 's western shore. For a few years there was a populated place in the King Frederick VI Coast, until 1965 when the inhabitants were relocated and the settlement was abandoned. The coast extends from Pikiulleq Bay in the north to Cape Farewell in the south. Many sections of the shore area of King Frederick VI Coast are very indented with a succession of fjords and bays, such as Lindenow Fjord (Kangerlussuatsiaq), Paatusoq , Anorituup Kangerlua , Timmiarmiut Fjord , Napasorsuaq Fjord , Bernstorff Fjord and Umivik Bay . There are numerous active glaciers , both at

585-542: The age of 59 at Rendsburg during a stay in the Duchy of Holstein . At the death of his father, Frederick finally ascended the thrones of Denmark and Norway in name also as their seventh absolute monarch at the age of 40. When the throne of Sweden seemed likely to become vacant in 1809, Frederick was interested in being elected there as well. Frederick actually was the first monarch of Denmark and Norway to descend from Gustav I of Sweden , who had secured Sweden's independence in

624-549: The assistance of Chief Minister Andreas Peter Bernstorff , including the abolition of serfdom in Denmark in 1788 and hanging as a capital punishment was abolished in 1789 in both Denmark and Norway. In 1803 the transatlantic slave trade was abolished in Denmark-Norway. After Crown Prince Frederick was declared of legal majority and assumed the regency in 1784, the Danish royal court started to make inquiries to arrange

663-526: The court ruling. Knud Rasmussen visited the coast in 1931, in the course of his Sixth Thule Expedition and again in 1932 and 1933 in the Seventh Thule Expedition , contributing greatly to the cartography of the inner fjords and mountain ranges. He also explored the possibility of establishing a new Greenlandic settlement in the coast, which was by then depopulated. In 1938 one hundred and fifty Inuit from Ammassalik were convinced by

702-571: The creation of the Assemblies of the Estate (purely consultative regional assemblies); this had the unintended result of later exacerbating relations between Danes and Germans in Schleswig , whose regional assembly became a forum for constant bickering between the two national groups. Frederick VI was known as a patron of astronomy and in 1832 offered gold medal prizes to anyone who discovered

741-593: The eastern coast of Greenland in the 10th century. The inhabitants of the Western Settlement referred to the inhospitable Southeastern Greenland coast as "Ubygder" , the unbuilt place. In 1001 Torgils Orrabeinfostre , a legendary Norseman who was shipwrecked in these harsh shores, spent four years trying to reach the Western Settlement. Later, in the 18th century, Peder Olsen Walløe was the first European known with certainty to have landed on

780-480: The full powers of the regency, dismissing the ministers loyal to the Queen Dowager. It is said that during the coup, he engaged in a fistfight with his half-uncle over the regency. He continued as regent of Denmark-Norway under his father's name until the latter's death in 1808. During the first years of the regency, Frederick instituted widespread liberal reforms in the spirit of enlightened absolutism with

819-400: The head of the fjords, as well as protruding into the sea such as Puisortoq , making navigation along the coast dangerous. There are as well many coastal islands, such as Upernattivik , Skjoldungen , Timmiarmiit , Queen Louise Island and Iluileq . Fjords in the coast form peninsulas between them, the largest of which is Odinland . Most fjords are flanked by steep mountain ranges such as

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858-467: The island is a glaciated peak in the northern part, at 1,352 m (4,435.7 ft). The only permanently inhabited settlement on the island is Tasiilaq town on the south coast of the island, with 1,893 inhabitants as of 2009 , the most populous community on the eastern coast, and the seventh-largest town in Greenland. The research station Sermilik is located 15 km northwest of Tasiilaq on

897-400: The late 1760s, and from 1770 to 1772, Struensee was de facto regent of the country. Struensee soon also became the confidant of Queen Caroline Mathilde, Frederick's mother, partly because during a smallpox epidemic in the autumn of 1769, in which over 1,000 children died, he successfully inoculated Crown Prince Frederick with good results. In doing so, Struensee won the gratitude and trust of

936-406: The liberal ideas of his years as a prince regent . Censorship and suppression of all opposition together with the poor state of the country's economy made this period of his reign somewhat gloomy, though the King himself in general maintained his position of a well-meaning autocrat. From the 1830s the economic depression was eased a bit and from 1834 the King accepted a small democratic innovation by

975-497: The little explored King Frederick VI Coast all the way south on a gruesome open boat journey of 600 nautical miles (1,111 km) using two small whaleboats and a kayak. Braving harsh weather conditions, the three boats managed to round Cape Farewell , reaching finally Nanortalik on the western side. In 1931 Norway claimed sovereignty over a section of the coast between 60°30'N —just north of Nanuuseq , and 63°40'N —just south of Odinland . On 12 July 1932, acting leader Finn Devold

1014-705: The movement of pack ice carried by the East Greenland Current and frequent gale-force winds that sweep down from the Greenland ice cap , it is mostly very difficult to approach or navigate along the coast by ship. This area was inhabited by Inuit in the past, but in present times King Frederick VI Coast is uninhabited. Numerous coastal islands, including Qulleq , Timmiarmiit , Griffenfeld Island and Skjoldungen , have recent Inuit remains, as well as Paleo-Eskimo or ancient Thule culture sites. Icelander Gunnbjørn Ulf-Krakason reportedly sighted

1053-485: The neglected Queen and soon became her lover as well. It is widely believed that Struensee was also the biological father of Prince Frederick's only sister Princess Louise Augusta , who was born in 1771. Both the Queen and Struensee were ideologically influenced by Enlightenment thinkers such as Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau . Therefore, the Queen also fully approved the harsh education recommended by Struensee for

1092-479: The now extinct Southeast-Greenland Inuit during his 1828–30 expedition, describing some of their customs and way of life in the harsh living conditions of the coast. In 1883-85 Gustav Holm and Vilhelm Garde made a more thorough survey of the coast, completing the mapping of the region begun by Graah. In 1931 Gino Watkins , leader of the 1930-1931 British Arctic Air Route Expedition , together with Percy Lemon and Augustine Courtauld traveled southwards along

1131-432: The parents of eight children, six of whom died in infancy. Two daughters grew to adulthood and neither of them had children. The eight children of Frederick and Marie were: By his mistress Frederikke Dannemand (Bente Mortensdatter Andersen (Rafsted)), King Frederick VI had these four children: He received the following orders and decorations: Ammassalik Ammassalik Island ( Danish : King Oscar Island )

1170-451: The still uncharted southern part of the coast using local umiak boats. Wilhelm August Graah (1793–1863), a Danish naval officer, was sent by the King of Denmark on an expedition to the little known eastern coast with the purpose to search for the lost Eastern Norse Settlement . Like Walløe, Graah also used local umiaks and mapped parts of the area for the first time, naming the coast "King Frederick VI Coast". He made numerous contacts with

1209-411: The throne. The young prince was baptised already two days after the birth on 30 January at Christiansborg Palace by the royal confessor Ludvig Harboe , Bishop of Zealand , and was named after his late grandfather, King Frederick V . His godparents were King Christian VII (his father), the dowager queen Juliana Maria (his step-grandmother) and his half-uncle, Hereditary Prince Frederick . At

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1248-428: The time of Crown Prince Frederick's birth, conditions at the Danish court were characterized by Christian VII's increasing mental illness, including suspected schizophrenia expressed by catatonic periods. In the resulting intrigues and power struggles which followed, Christian's personal physician, the progressive and radical thinker Johann Friedrich Struensee , became the King's advisor and rose steadily in power during

1287-483: The time of his reign, succeeding Danish monarchs have also chosen mottos in the Danish language rather than the formerly customary Latin. He was succeeded by his half cousin Christian . The future King Frederick VI was born between 10 and 11 p.m. on 28 January 1768 in the Queen's Bedchamber at Christiansborg Palace , the royal residence in central Copenhagen . He was the first child born to King Christian VII and Queen Caroline Mathilde of Denmark and Norway . He

1326-742: The wife of the future Frederick VII of Denmark . Crises encountered during his reign include disagreement with the British over neutral shipping. This resulted in two British attacks on Copenhagen, the Battle of Copenhagen of 1801 and the Battle of Copenhagen of 1807 . The conflict continued in the Gunboat War between Denmark-Norway and the United Kingdom, which lasted until the Treaty of Kiel in 1814. On 13 March 1808, Christian VII died at

1365-435: Was king of Denmark from 13 March 1808 until his death in 1839 and king of Norway from 13 March 1808 to 7 February 1814. He was the last king of Denmark–Norway . From 1784 until his accession, he served as regent during his father's mental illness and was referred to as the "Crown Prince Regent" (Norwegian: kronprinsregent ). For his motto he chose God and the just cause (Danish: Gud og den retfærdige sag ) and since

1404-426: Was born 15 months after his parents' wedding, the day before his father's 19th birthday, and while his mother was just 16 years old. The King had shown little interest in the Queen after the marriage and only reluctantly visited her in her chambers. The King's advisors had to step in, among other things with love letters written in the King's name, in an attempt to make the marriage lead to a pregnancy and thus an heir to

1443-714: Was dependent on grain imports and had become the target of Swedish territorial ambitions. He expected the wars would end with a great international conference in which Napoleon would have a major voice, and would help protect the crown's interests, especially in Norway. After the French defeat in the Napoleonic Wars in 1814 and the loss of the Norwegian crown (as a result of the Treaty of Kiel ), Frederick VI carried through an authoritarian and reactionary course, giving up

1482-552: Was made regent. The real power, however, was held by Hereditary Prince Frederick's mother (Crown Prince Frederick's step-grandmother), Queen Dowager Juliana Maria , aided by Ove Høegh-Guldberg . Frederick was raised under the supervision of Margrethe Marie Thomasine Numsen and then under his chamberlain, Johan Bülow . Already in 1782, Crown Prince Frederick came in contact with the minister Andreas Peter Bernstorff , who had been dismissed two years earlier. Later

1521-569: Was required by the Norwegian government to formally hoist the Norwegian flag at Finnsbu , the main Norwegian station in the area. Following the 1933 resolution of the Permanent Court of International Justice rejecting Norway's claims in Greenland, Finnsbu was abandoned, but the Torgilsbu station continued operation until 1940. A name suggested for the Norwegian territory was Fridtjof Nansen Land , but had not been officially adopted until

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