Hall Land

Hall Land
Hall Land
Geography
Location NW Greenland
Coordinates 81°20′N 58°0′W / 81.333°N 58.000°W / 81.333; -58.000Coordinates: 81°20′N 58°0′W / 81.333°N 58.000°W / 81.333; -58.000
Adjacent bodies of water
Hall Basin
Newman Bay
Length 150 km (93 mi)
Width 70 km (43 mi)
Highest elevation 1,094 m (3,589 ft)
Highest point Kayser Mountain
Administration
Greenland (Denmark)
Municipality Qaasuitsup

Hall Land is a peninsula in far northwestern Greenland. It is a part of the Qaasuitsup municipality. Hall Land is one of the coldest places in Greenland.[1]

The last live caribou reported from Northern Greenland were seen in Hall Land in 1922. They were most likely Peary caribou that had strayed across the channel from Ellesmere Island.[2]

Geography

Hall Land is located to the northeast of Daugaard-Jensen Land and the southwest of Nyeboe Land. It is surrounded to the north by the Robeson Channel of the Nares Strait and to the east by the Newman Bay. Hall Basin, the Petermann Fjord and the Petermann Glacier mark the western limits of Hall Land. To the south and southeast the peninsula is attached to the mainland and its ice cap.

The unglaciated Polaris Foreland lies in the northernmost part of Hall Land beyond the Haug Range.[3] 1,094 metres (3,589 ft) high Kayser Mountain, the highest elevation of the peninsula, is located at the northeastern end of the range.[4]

Map of the Nares Strait area.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hall Land (Grønland)
  2. ↑ Morten Meldgaard, (1986) The Greenland Caribou - Zoogeography, Taxonomy, and Population Dynamics, ISBN 978-87-635-1180-3 p. 44
  3. ↑ "Hall Land". Mapcarta. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  4. ↑ GoogleEarth
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