Hannah Island (Danish: Hannah Ø) is an island of the Nares Strait, Greenland. [1] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.

Hannah Island

Hannah Ø
Hannah Island
Geography
Location	Kennedy Channel Nares Strait
Coordinates	81.13333°N 63.41667°W / 81.13333; -63.41667
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
Greenland
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]

See also

• List of islands of Greenland
• List of features in Greenland named after Greenlandic Inuit

Bibliography

• Edward L. Moss, Shores of the polar sea

References

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