Princess Dagmar Island
Princess Dagmar Island (Danish: Prinsesse Dagmar Ø) is an uninhabited coastal island of the Wandel Sea in King Frederick VIII Land, Greenland.
Prinsesse Dagmar Ø | |
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 Satellite image of The northern end of Greenland including Princess Dagmar Island | |
  Princess Dagmar Island | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Wandel Sea |
| Coordinates | 81°39′N 19°57′W |
| Area | 144.5 km2 (55.8 sq mi) |
| Length | 21 km (13 mi) |
| Width | 6 km (3.7 mi) |
| Highest elevation | 111.8 m (366.8 ft) |
| Administration | |
| Zone | Northeast Greenland National Park |
| Demographics | |
| Population | 0 |
The island was named after Princess Dagmar of Denmark.
The Danish military base/weather station Nord is located in the mainland east of the island, on the western side of Crown Prince Christian Land Peninsula.
In Vol. 14 of the Encyclopedia Arctica (unpublished, completed in 1951), Princess Dagmar Island is still not recognized as an island, but mentioned as a peninsula.[1]
Geography
Princess Dagmar Island is located to the southeast of Princess Thyra Island and to the south of Princess Margaret Island, close to the coast of Crown Prince Christian Land in far northeastern Greenland. The island lies in a bay of the Wandel Sea formed by the confluence of Denmark Sound and Independence Sound.[2] The island has an area of 144.5 km ² and has a shoreline of 55,8 kilometres.[3]
The region of Greenland where the island lies was part of Avannaa, originally Nordgrønland ("North Greenland"), a former county of Greenland until 31 December 2008.[4] The island is presently within the Northeast Greenland National Park.
 Map of Northeastern Greenland. |
See also
References
- Encyclopedia Arctica
- Prinsesse Dagmar Ø
- UNEP
- Compiled by Per Ivar Haug (August 2005). Ingar Lomheim (ed.). "Islands". Gazetteer of Greenland. UBiT, Universitetsbiblioteket i Trondheim "University Library in Trondheim" (15). ISBN 82-7113-114-1. ISSN 1502-0800. Archived from the original on 2011-06-15.