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Jens Munk Island

Jens Munk Island

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This article is about the island in eastern Greenland. For the Canadian island formally known as Jens Munk Island, see Kapuiviit.

Jens Munk Island (Danish: Søren Norbyes Ø), uninhabited coastal island in eastern Greenland in the Sermersooq municipality. It is named after the Dano-Norwegian navigator and explorer Jens Munk. The island is the largest in the Søren Norby Islands archipelago.

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Geography

The island is located on the southern side of Pikiulleq Bay and north of the Fridtjof Nansen Peninsula, separated from the mainland by a 45 km long sound named Kagssortoq (Kattertooq), which has a width ranging between 0.7 and 6.5 km. The southern part of the island is covered by an ice cap.

The island has an area of 470.7 km ² and a shoreline of 185.9 kilometres.[1] Its southernmost point is Cape Lovelorn, projecting from a steep 280 m high headland at the northern limit of Umivik Bay.[2]

Map of Greenland section.

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References

  1. [1]
    UNEP Archived 2016-04-19 at the Wayback Machine
  2. [2]
    Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 103
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