Amdrup Land
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|image_caption= 1911 Lauge Koch map of NE Greenland showing Amdrup Land
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Amdrup Land is a land area in the Crown Prince Christian Land peninsula, King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland.{{cite web|url=https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?params=80.783333333333_N_-15.366666666667_E_globe:earth&language=en|title=Amdrup Land|work=GeoHack|accessdate=18 June 2021}} Administratively it belongs to the NE Greenland National Park area.
Numerous fossils of the Carboniferous and Palaeozoic periods have been found in Amdrup Land, including fossil algae and fishes.[https://geusjournals.org/index.php/ggub/article/view/6322 Carboniferous algal microflora, Kap Jungersen and Foldedal Formations, Holm Land and Amdrup Land, eastern North Greenland]
Geography
Amdrup Land is largely unglaciated. It is bound in the north by the large Flade Isblink ice cap, in the east by Antarctic Bay of the Greenland Sea and in the south by the Ingolf Fjord, on the other side of which rises Holm Land.
The Henrik Krøyer Holme island group lies off its southeastern point. To the northwest rise the Princess Elizabeth Alps.Google Earth
History
Amdrup Land was named by the 1906-1908 Denmark expedition after Georg Carl Amdrup, a member of the expedition committee.[https://archive.org/stream/greenland00vahl_0/greenland00vahl_0_djvu.txt Full text of "Greenland" - Internet Archive]
The 1938–39 Mørkefjord expedition found numerous stone mounds which proved to be ancient Inuit meat caches at a place named Kødgravene, in the northeastern shore of Amdrup Land. Archaeological remains of an Inuit settlement were found at Sommerterrassen, north of Cape Jungersen in the SE coast.Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland{{cite journal | doi=10.1016/j.jaa.2020.101169 | title=Uncovering their tracks: Intra-site behaviour at a Paleo-Inuit multiple dwelling site | year=2020 | last1=Coulson | first1=Sheila | last2=Andreasen | first2=Claus | journal=Journal of Anthropological Archaeology | volume=58 | page=101169 | s2cid=219509308 | doi-access=free }}
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References
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External links
- [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0924796396000498 The prehistory of the coastal areas of Amdrup Land and Holm Land adjacent to the Northeast Water polynya: an archaeological perspective]
- [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237765353_Tectono-stratigraphic_history_of_Northern_Amdrup_Land_North-East_Greenland_-_Implications_for_the_northernmost_East_Greenland_shelf Tectono-stratigraphic history of Northern Amdrup Land]
- GEUS Bulletin - Wandel Sea Basin: basin analysis - a summary