Daugaard-Jensen Land

Daugaard-Jensen Land
	View of the cliffs flanking Petermann Fjord marking the eastern limits of Daugaard-Jensen Land.
	Daugaard-Jensen Land
Geography
Location	NW Greenland
Coordinates	80°19′N 61°30′W
Adjacent to	Cass Fjord; Kennedy Channel; Bessel Fjord; Aleqatsiaq Fjord
Length	120 km (75 mi)
Width	90 km (56 mi)
Highest elevation	1,066 m (3497 ft)
Administration
	Greenland (Denmark)
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

Daugaard-Jensen Land, (Danish: Daugård-Jensen Land), is a peninsula in northwestern Greenland. It is a part of the Avannaata municipality.[1]

Daugaard-Jensen Land was named in honour of Jens Daugaard-Jensen (1871–1938), who was Inspector of Greenland between 1900 and 1912.

Geography

Daugaard-Jensen Land is located between Washington Land and the Petermann Glacier. The Cass Fjord is at the southern end, beyond which lies the Humboldt Glacier.[2] The Pentamerus Range is located in the middle/northern region.[1]

The northern coast runs between Aleqatsiaq Fjord and Bessel Fjord, east of which the Petermann Peninsula extends northwards.[3]

Map of part of Ellesmere Island and far Northern Greenland.

Daugaard-Jensen Land NASA picture.

H.P. Trettin (ed.), Geology of the Innuitian Orogen and Arctic Platform of Canada and Greenland. Geological Survey of Canada (1991) ISBN 978-0660131313

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