Wegener Peninsula
{{Short description|Peninsula in Sermersooq, Greenland}}
{{Infobox peninsulas
|name= Wegener Peninsula
|local_name= Wegener Halvø
|image_name=Wegener Peninsula 2023-08-19-23 59 Sentinel-2 L1C.jpg
|image_caption= Wegener Peninsula Sentinel-2 image
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| map = Greenland
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|location=East Greenland
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|area_km2=
|length_km=27
|width_km=9
|highest_mount=
|elevation_m= 975
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|Country_heading=
|country=Greenland (Denmark)
|country_admin_divisions_title=Zone
|country_admin_divisions=Northeast Greenland National Park
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|demonym=
|population=Uninhabited
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Wegener Peninsula ({{langx|da|Wegener Halvø}}) is a peninsula in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.
History
This peninsula was named during the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland by Arne Noe-Nygaard (1908-1991). He named it after German scientist Alfred Wegener (1880–1930), who had taken part in the 1906–08 Danmark Expedition and the 1912–13 Danish Expedition to Queen Louise Land led by J.P. Koch. Wegener died in 1930 on the Greenland ice sheet during the Wegener Expedition led by himself.{{cite web | title = Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland | publisher = Geological Survey of Denmark | url = https://data.geus.dk/geusmap/?mapname=stednavnedb#baslay=&optlay=&extent=303042.96925503225,8447895.419490626,397320.17198496836,8489236.594040575&layers=grl_geus_north_east_higgins_map,grl_ne_higgins_placenames,grl_ne_placenames&filter_1=txt_search.part%3D%26placename%3D&filter_2=placename.part%3D%26txt_search.part%3D%26official%3D| accessdate = 28 October 2023}}
==Geography==
The peninsula is bounded in the northwest by the Fleming Fjord, Kap Brown is the point to the northeast, jutting into the Davy Sound to the south of Cape Biot. The Nathorst Fjord extends on the southeastern side and to the southwest the Wegener Peninsula is connected to the mainland. Google Earth
Bibliography
- A. K. Higgins, Jane A. Gilotti, M. Paul Smith (eds.), The Greenland Caledonides: Evolution of the Northeast Margin of Laurentia.
References
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External links
- [http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic6-1-2.pdf Journey across the nunataks of central east Greenland, 1951]
Category:Peninsulas of Greenland
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