King Frederik VIII Land ( Danish : Kong Frederik VIII Land ) is a major geographic division of northeastern Greenland . It extends above the Arctic Circle from 76°N to 81°N in a North-South direction along the coast of the Greenland Sea .
6-782: Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden is a fjord located in King Frederick VIII Land , in Northeast Greenland National Park of northeastern Greenland. It is located at latitude 79° N (hence the name, which in Danish means "the fjord of seventy-nine") between Lambert Land and Hovgaard Island . The fjord was named by the Denmark expedition in April 1907. The 79° North Glacier, also called Nioghalvfjerdsbrae , drains into this fjord. The uninhabited Tobias Island
12-538: Is located 80 km east of the fjord. In September 2020, satellite imagery showed that a big chunk of ice shattered into many small pieces from the last remaining ice shelf in Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden. King Frederick VIII Land This vast desolate region was still uncharted territory around 1900. It was explored by the 1906–08 Denmark Expedition , the 1909–12 Alabama Expedition and by J.P. Koch's 1912–13 Danish Expedition to Queen Louise Land , when
18-831: The Nioghalvfjerdsbrae of far northeastern Greenland. In the areas of the shore it also includes fjords , such as the Skaer Fjord , the Ingolf Fjord and the Borg Fjord in Dove Bay , as well as numerous coastal islands, such as Hovgaard Island in the shore of the Greenland Sea or Princess Thyra Island in the Wandel Sea. The Greenland ice sheet reaches the shore at Jokel Bay . Flade Isblink ,
24-756: The Wandel Sea to the north, Peary Land to the northwest, and the Greenland Ice Sheet to the west. All its territory is included in the large Northeast Greenland National Park zone. King Frederik VIII Land includes mountain ranges, such as the Princess Caroline-Mathilde Alps , nunataks , such as Queen Louise Land , and vast glacier expanses, such as the Storstrommen , the Zachariae Isstrom and
30-600: The name came into general usage only after the publication of the 1931–34 Three-year Expedition to East Greenland (Treårsekspedition) reports. King Frederik VIII Land stretches between 76°N along the middle of the Bessel Fjord in the south and 81°N, the boundary running along the middle of the Independence Fjord and the Academy Glacier . It is bordered by King Christian X Land on the south,
36-444: The ruling monarch was Frederik VIII (1843 – 1912). The area between 79° and 81°30´N was first marked as 'King Frederik VIII Land', after King Frederik VIII of Denmark then the ruling monarch, by the 1906–08 Denmark Expedition in its maps of the region. Einar Storgaard used the name again in a 1927 map, and he also proposed a division of the region into a northern and a southern part with a border along Nioghalvfjerd Fjord . Finally
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