Wandel Land
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Wandel Land is a 15.7 km (52,000 ft) nunatak (Greenlandic: nunataq) in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. It is one of several nunataks in the Melville Bay region of Greenland, where the Greenland ice sheet (Greenlandic: Sermersuaq) drains into the bay alongside its entire length apart from an occasional nunatak.[1][2]
This nunatak is named after Danish polar explorer and hydrographer, Vice Admiral Carl Frederick Wandel (1843-1930).
Geography
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Wandel Land is located on the mainland of Greenland in the northernmost part of Upernavik Archipelago. To the north, Greenland ice sheet drains into Alison Bay via Nunatakassaup Sermia glacier.[1] To the southwest, the nunatak is bounded by the iceberg-choked Alison Bay, while a small inlet of the latter, Iterlassuaq, separates Wandel Land from another, smaller nunatak in the southeast. Alison Bay separates Wandel Land from a large Kiatassuaq Island in the southwest.[1]
There are several distinct summits on Wandel Land. The highest point is an unnamed 981 m (3,219 ft) peak in the central-western part of the massif, neighboring the 744 m (2,441 ft) Naujarsuit Qaqqat mountain from the west.
74°34′35″N 56°20′00″W / 74.57639°N 56.33333°W / 74.57639; -56.33333
References
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- ^ a b c Upernavik Avannarleq, Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992
- ^ Qimmsseriarsuaq, Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992
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