Djævleøen

Djævleøen, meaning "Devil Island",[1] is an uninhabited island of King Frederick VIII Land, NE Greenland.

Djævleøen
Nickname: Devil Island
Djævleøen
Geography
LocationDove Bay
Greenland Sea
Coordinates76°24′N 20°20′W
Area40.61 km2 (15.68 sq mi)
Length11 km (6.8 mi)
Width4 km (2.5 mi)
Coastline115.5 km (71.77 mi)
Highest elevation732 m (2402 ft)
Administration
ZoneNortheast Greenland National Park
Demographics
Population0

History

The island was named Djævleøen by the 1932 Gefion expedition. It had been previously also known as "Teufelkap Island" —a name used by Georg Carl Amdrup in 1913— because of the Teufelkap, its conspicuous eastern headland that had been previously named by the Second German North Polar Expedition led by Carl Koldewey.[2]

The curved horse-shoe shaped northern part of the island was named Hestefoden by the 1906–08 Danmark expedition, because the devil (Danish: djævle) is often represented as having hooved feet.[3]

Geography

The island lies in the southwestern area of Dove Bay. To the north lie the Licht Islands and to the west Godfred Hansen Island. To the south lies Nanok Island, separated from Djævleøen by the A. Stelling Sound, and further south Tvillingerne.[4]

Map of Northeastern Greenland.

Bibliography
  • A. K. Higgins, Jane A. Gilotti, M. Paul Smith (eds.), The Greenland Caledonides: Evolution of the Northeast Margin of Laurentia.

See also

References
  1. "Djævleøen". Mapcarta. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
  2. Amdrup, G. 1913: Report on the Danmark Expedition to the northeast coast of Greenland 1906–08. Meddelelser om Grønland 41(1), 270 pp
  3. "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
  4. Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 125
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