Hannah Island (Greenland)
Hannah Island (Danish: Hannah Ø) is an island of the Nares Strait, Greenland. [1] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.
| Hannah Ø | |
|---|---|
  Hannah Island | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Kennedy Channel Nares Strait |
| Coordinates | 81.13333°N 63.41667°W |
| Area | 0.5 km2 (0.19 sq mi) |
| Length | 0.9 km (0.56 mi) |
| Width | 0.6 km (0.37 mi) |
| Highest elevation | 36 m (118 ft) |
| Administration | |
| Municipality | Avannaata |
| Demographics | |
| Population | 0 |
Hannah Island was named after Hannah (Tookoolito), an Inuit guide who accompanied Charles Francis Hall in the 1871 Polaris expedition.[2][3]
Geography
Hannah Island lies in the mouth of Bessel Fjord and northeast of Cape Bryan by the Kennedy Channel. The waters around the island are frozen most of the year.
The island consists of a huge mound of pebbles and drift, probably the deposit of an ancient glacier. It has an area of 0.5 km² and an elevation of 36 meters.[4] Lichens and lichenicolous fungi grow on the island.[5]
 Map of part of Ellesmere Island and far Northern Greenland. |
Bibliography
- Edward L. Moss, Shores of the polar sea
References
- "Bessel Fjord". Mapcarta. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
- Clements R. Markham, The Lands of Silence, p. 300
- Hannah and Joe on the Map - Nunatsiaq News
- Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 93
- The Lichenicolous Fungi of Greenland, p. 6
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