Sverdrup Island (Danish: Sverdrup Ø) is an uninhabited island in the far north of Greenland, in the Northeast Greenland National Park area. It is named...
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The Sverdrup Islands is an archipelago of the northern Queen Elizabeth Islands, in Nunavut, Canada. The islands, part of the Arctic Archipelago, are situated...
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Canadian territory of Nunavut and the Danish autonomous territory of Greenland. The island itself is barren and uninhabited with an area of 130 hectares (320...
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Greenland (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, pronounced [kalaːɬːit nʉnaːt]; Danish: Grønland, pronounced [ˈkʁɶnˌlænˀ]) is a North American island autonomous...
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Island Suunikajik Sverdrup Island (Greenland) Talerua Island Takiseeq Timmiarmiit Tobias Island Traill Island Trefoldigheden Turner Island Uiivaq [ceb] Ujuaakajiip...
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Norse settlements in Greenland were established in the years following 986 by settlers coming from Iceland. The settlers, known as Grænlendingar ('Greenlanders'...
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monitors on the islands. In 1969 Panarctic Oils, now part of Suncor Energy, began operating exploration oil wells in the Franklinian and Sverdrup basins and...
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Earth is the nearby Kaffeklubben Island of Greenland). The Arctic Cordillera mountain system covers much of Ellesmere Island, making it the most mountainous...
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through him Sverdrup and Fridtjof Nansen learned to know each other. Sverdrup joined Fridtjof Nansen's expedition of 1888 across Greenland. In 1892 he...
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and Antarctic regions by the Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup, Oscar Wisting, and Roald Amundsen between 1893 and 1912. It was designed...
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Murray Island is located off the mouth of J.P. Koch Fjord in the Lincoln Sea, to the west of Sverdrup Island and to the north of Nares Land. The island has...
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only in the Arctic claiming Jan Mayen and Sverdrup Islands, but also in Antarctica. Norway claimed Bouvet Island and looked further south, formally inquiring...
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planned for the northern coast of Greenland, but weather and ice conditions prevented the realization of this plan, so Sverdrup decided to explore the southern...
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Inlet" in the west. There is a Chipp Sound that separates Sverdrup Island from smaller Elison Island, but it is located at the other end of Nordenskiöld Fjord...
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largest island Mackenzie King Island, world's 115th largest island Moore Island Sverdrup Islands Axel Heiberg Island, world's 32nd largest island Ellef...
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(Canada) – Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada 83°0′N 46°39′W / 83.000°N 46.650°W / 83.000; -46.650 (Greenland) – Sverdrup Island, Greenland 83°0′N 46°13′W...
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Arctic wolf (redirect from Melville Island wolf)
also attributed the name Canis lupus orion to a Greenland wolf specimen from Cape York, northwest Greenland. Both wolves are recognized as separate subspecies...
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Petroleum exploration in the Arctic (section Greenland)
(Mackenzie Delta-Beaufort Sea Basin) Sverdrup Basin (Canadian Arctic Islands) East Siberian Sea Greenland (North Greenland) Hope Basin Kronprins Christian...
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Canada, the second largest island in the Americas (behind Greenland), and the fifth-largest island in the world. Its area is 507,451 km2 (195,928 sq mi) with...
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Island is an uninhabited island and one of the Sverdrup Islands in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. A member of the Queen Elizabeth Islands and...
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Amund Ringnes Island is an uninhabited island and one of the Sverdrup Islands and Queen Elizabeth Islands in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada....
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Erik the Red (category Norse settlements in Greenland)
which time he explored Greenland, eventually culminating in his founding of the first successful European settlement on the island. Erik would later die...
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Ellesmere Island, measuring 1.3 km2 (0.50 sq mi) The Sverdrup Islands, an archipelago of the northern Queen Elizabeth Islands, include: Amund Ringnes Island Axel...
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This is a list of the islands of Greenland by area. It includes all islands in Greenland greater than 100 km2 (39 sq mi), sorted in descending order by...
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Ellesmere Island through the Sverdrup Pass. 2003/04 she led two ski-all-the-way expeditions to the South Pole. 2003 crossed the Greenland Ice Cap with...
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Arctic Ocean (redirect from East Greenland Rift Basin)
Pacific and Atlantic both exit through the Fram Strait between Greenland and Svalbard Island, which is about 2,700 m (8,900 ft) deep and 350 km (220 mi)...
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located on the island of Newfoundland and not on the North American mainland, was abruptly abandoned. The Norse settlements on Greenland lasted for almost...
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by Martin Frobisher reach Baffin Island 1579: Danish-Norwegian expedition led by James Alday fails to reach Greenland due to ice 1580: English expedition...
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Devon Island (Inuktitut: ᑕᓪᓗᕈᑎᑦ, Tallurutit) is an island in Canada and the largest uninhabited island (no permanent residents) in the world. It is located...
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layers (<800 m) of the EGC is between 3 and 4 sverdrups. One of the most important aspects of the East Greenland Current is the amount of sea ice it exports...
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