• Source: Queen Louise Land

      • Queen Louise Land (Danish: Dronning Louise Land; Greenlandic: Nuna Dronning Louise) is a vast mountainous region located west of Dove Bay, King Frederik VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.
      The highest point of Queen Louise Land is Gefiontinde, with a height of 2,364.3 m (7,757 ft), the highest of the Gefiontinder group of peaks located at 76°28′8″N 25°38′31″W.
      Geologically Queen Louise Land is made up of orthogneiss overlain by sedimentary rocks.


      History


      This remote area was named Dronning Louises Land after Queen Louise of Denmark (1851–1926), wife of King Frederik VIII of Denmark, by the ill-fated 1906–08 Denmark Expedition —the expedition that aimed to map one of the last unknown parts of Greenland. Danish Arctic explorer Alf Trolle claimed that this area had been originally named as Den Store Nanuták —The Big Nunatak.
      Queen Louise Land was subsequently visited by the 1912–13 Danish Expedition to Queen Louise Land led by J.P. Koch, as well as the 1952–54 British North Greenland Expedition led by Commander James Simpson.


      Geography


      Surrounded by ice masses, Queen Louise Land is clearly delimited. It is an extensive area made up of several very large and numerous small nunataks (summits or ridges of mountains that protrude from the ice). Its western boundary is the Greenland ice sheet and its eastern limits are the massive Storstrommen and L. Bistrup Brae glaciers. Kap Aage Bertelsen is a small headland at the confluence of the large Storstrømmen and L. Bistrup Bræ glaciers in the east. Dryasdal is a valley seasonally covered with Dryas octopetala flowers. The area of Queen Louise Land is uninhabited.
      The main geographic divisions or parts of Queen Louise Land from north to south are:

      Ymer Nunatak, a large nunatak located at the northern end of Queen Louise Land, south of the Alabama Nunatak. The Suzanne Glacier flows to the south and from it flows the Britannia Glacier southwards into main Queen Louise Land.
      Central Queen Louise Land, the main part or Queen Louise Land proper.
      Carlsbergfondet Land, the southwestern part of Queen Louise Land, between Budolfi Isstrom and A.B. Drachmann Glacier.
      Eventyrfjelde, the southernmost part of Queen Louise Land, south of A.B. Drachmann Glacier.


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      = Mountains, nunataks and cliffs

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      Many of the mountains and massifs are little glaciated. Mountains are generally rounded and rarely craggy, but there are numerous cliffs. The average elevation is around 1,500 m.


      Bibliography


      Gregson, J. 2001b: Dronning Louise Land, new routes. American Alpine Journal 2001, 258 only.
      Peacock, J.D. 1958: Some investigations into the geology and petrography of Dronning Louise Land, N.E. Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 157(4), 139 pp.
      Trolle, A. 1913: Hydrographical observations from the Danmark Expedition. Meddelelser om Grønland 41(2), 271–426.
      Lister, H. and Wyllie, P. J. (1957) The Geomorphology of Dronning Louise Land. Meddelelser om Grønland. Vol.158. No.1. C.A. Reitzel, København.
      Spencer Apollonio, Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland, 2008
      PJ Wyllie, (1956) Ice Recession in Dronning Louise Land, North-east Greenland


      See also


      List of mountain ranges of Greenland
      List of Nunataks#Greenland


      References




      External links


      Media related to Queen Louise Land at Wikimedia Commons
      Dronning Louise Land, North-East Greenland
      Captain and Mrs Trolle's Fund in Memory of the Danmark Expedition, 1906–8 - Cambridge Journals

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