Lambert Land

Lambert Land is a land area —possibly a peninsula or an island— in King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland.[1] Administratively it belongs to the NE Greenland National Park area.

Lambert Land
Lambert Land
Geography
LocationEast Greenland
Coordinates79°15′N 20°30′W
Adjacent bodies of water
Length65 km (40.4 mi)
Width55 km (34.2 mi)
Highest elevation1,023 m (3356 ft)
Highest pointTrompeteren-Bastion
Administration
Greenland (Denmark)
ZoneNE Greenland National Park
Demographics
PopulationUninhabited

Geography

Lambert Land is bounded in the north by the Nioghalvfjerd Fjord, in the east by the Greenland Sea and in the south by the Zachariae Isstrom. Jomfru Tidsfordriv Fjord is a small fjord in the eastern coast.[1] Cape Drygalsky is its eastern headland. To the northeast lie the Gamle Jim Islands and to the southeast Jokel Bay. Lambert Land is largely unglaciated.

History

Lambert Land was named by the 1906-1908 Denmark expedition after a name found in a 1718 map of an obscure Dutch whaler who had sighted that land in 1670.[2]

Jørgen Brønlund, the last survivor of the ill-fated leading team of the Denmark expedition reached Lambert Land in the moonlight and his body was found there by Johan Peter Koch and Tobias Gabrielsen, a Greenlandic polar explorer, in mid March 1908. He had his diary and Hagen's cartographic sketches. Mylius-Erichsen and Hagen had died further north. Brønlund was buried at Kap Bergendahl in southeast Lambert Land, the spot where he was found, which is today known as Brønlund's Grave (Danish: Brønlunds Grav).[3]

In 1980 archaeological remains of ancient Inuit dwellings were found.[4]

Map of Northeastern Greenland.
1911 German map of NE Greenland showing Lambert Land at the southern end.

References
  1. "Lambert Land". Mapcarta. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  2. Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland, Geological Survey of Denmark (GEUS)
  3. Place names, NE Greenland
  4. Lambert Land. In: Den Store Danske Encyklopædi (Danish)
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