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Queen Louise Land (Danish: Dronning Louise Land;[2] Greenlandic: Nuna Dronning Louise)[3] is a vast mountainous region located west of Dove Bay, King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.

Queen Louise Land
Nuna Dronning Louise Dronning Louise Land
Queen Louise Land and neighbouring areas
Highest point
Peak	Gefiontinde
Elevation	2,364 m (7,756 ft)
Dimensions
Length	185 km (115 mi) N/S
Width	73 km (45 mi) E/W
Area	12,000 km2 (4,600 sq mi)
Geography
Location
Country	Greenland
Range coordinates	76°40′N 24°30′W
Geology
Orogeny	Caledonian orogeny[1]

The highest point of Queen Louise Land is Gefiontinde,[4] with a height of 2,364.3 m (7,757 ft), the highest of the Gefiontinder group of peaks located at 76°28′8″N 25°38′31″W.[5][6]

Geologically Queen Louise Land is made up of orthogneiss overlain by sedimentary rocks.[7]

History

This remote area was named Dronning Louises Land after Queen Louise of Denmark (1851–1926), wife of King Frederick VIII of Denmark,[8] by the ill-fated 1906–08 Denmark Expedition —the expedition that aimed to map one of the last unknown parts of Greenland.[9] Danish Arctic explorer Alf Trolle claimed that this area had been originally named as Den Store Nanuták —The Big Nunatak.[10]

Queen Louise Land was subsequently visited by the 1912–13 Danish Expedition to Queen Louise Land led by J.P. Koch,[8] as well as the 1952–54 British North Greenland Expedition led by Commander James Simpson.[11]

Geography

Surrounded by ice masses, Queen Louise Land is clearly delimited. It is an extensive area made up of several very large and numerous small nunataks. Its western boundary is the Greenland ice sheet and its eastern limits are the massive Storstrommen and L. Bistrup Brae glaciers. Kap Aage Bertelsen is a small headland at the confluence of the large Storstrømmen and L. Bistrup Bræ glaciers in the east. Dryasdal is a valley seasonally covered with Dryas octopetala flowers. The area of Queen Louise Land is uninhabited.[5]

The main geographic divisions or parts of Queen Louise Land from north to south are:

• Ymer Nunatak, a large nunatak located at the northern end, south of the Alabama Nunatak. The Britannia Glacier is between Ymer Nunatak and the northern end of main Queen Louise Land.[4]
• Central Queen Louise Land, the main part or Queen Louise Land proper.
• Carlsbergfondet Land, the SW part of Dronning Louise Land, between Borgjøkel and A.B. Drachmann Glacier.[4]
• Eventyrfjelde, the southernmost part of Dronning Louise Land, south of A.B. Drachmann Glacier.[4]

Glaciers, ice caps, lakes and rivers

Mountains, nunataks and cliffs

Many of the mountains and massifs are little glaciated; mountains are generally rounded and rarely craggy. There are numerous cliffs though. The average elevation is around 1,500 m.[8]

Bibliography

• Gregson, J. 2001b: Dronning Louise Land, new routes. American Alpine Journal 2001, 258 only.
• Peacock, J.D. 1958: Some investigations into the geology and petrography of Dronning Louise Land, N.E. Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 157(4), 139 pp.
• Trolle, A. 1913: Hydrographical observations from the Danmark Expedition. Meddelelser om Grønland 41(2), 271–426.
• Lister, H. and Wyllie, P. J. (1957) The Geomorphology of Dronning Louise Land. Meddelelser om Grønland. Vol.158. No.1. C.A. Reitzel, København.
• Spencer Apollonio, Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland, 2008
• PJ Wyllie, (1956) Ice Recession in Dronning Louise Land, North-east Greenland

See also

• List of mountain ranges of Greenland
• List of Nunataks#Greenland

References

External links

• Dronning Louise Land, North-East Greenland
• Captain and Mrs Trolle's Fund in Memory of the Danmark Expedition, 1906–8 - Cambridge Journals

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