Bertelsen Glacier ( Danish : Bertelsen Gletscher ) is a glacier in northern Greenland . Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park . Between 2006 and 2010 there was an automatic weather station near the glacier.
21-466: The glacier was mapped with accuracy by Lauge Koch during an aerial survey in May 1938. It had previously not been seen by Robert Peary during his 1902 exploration of the area that put the adjacent Moore Glacier in the map. The glacier was named in honour of Aage Bertelsen , who had taken part in the 1906–1908 Danmark Expedition . The Bertelsen Glacier is one of the main glaciers in eastern Peary Land . It
42-686: A bitter conflict arose between Koch and eleven of the most prominent Danish geologists of the day, including O. B. Bøggild , director of The Mineralogical Museum and professor at the Geological Institute of Copenhagen University , and Victor Madsen [ sv ] , head of the Geological Survey of Denmark . Controversy started with a review of the Lauge Koch book Geologie von Grönland (1935) written by ‘the eleven’ and accusing Koch of poor and improper scientific practice. Relating to
63-465: A channel —the so-called " Peary Channel ". Koch's observations of the interior of Independence Fjord led to considerable cartographic changes compared with the Peter Freuchen map of 1912. In 1922 he mapped Hiawatha Glacier , and noted that the glacier tongue extended into Lake Alida (near Foulk Fjord ). In 1938, Lauge Koch found in the mountains west of Jameson Land , near Scoresby Sound ,
84-517: A permanent infrastructure in the field caused a change in the whole culture and organization of Danish Arctic exploration. His last expedition was the 1956-58 Expedition to East Greenland in which he used helicopters. But the Danish government cut funding in mid-expedition and Koch's career as expedition leader was terminated. The mineral kochite which is found in Mt Hvide Ryg , Werner Bjerge , and
105-558: Is 29 km wide between the Kangikajik ( Cape Brewster , 70°09'N) at the end of the Savoia Peninsula and Uunarteq ( Cape Tobin 70°24'N). Its southern part is a steep, 1000–2000 m (3,280-6,560 ft) tall wall of basalt , and the northern side is lower and more rounded. The mouth extends for about 110 km (68 mi) to the west, slightly turns north, widens, and forms a basin called Hall Bredning. At Nordestbucht on Jameson Land
126-552: Is a valley glacier, a branch of the larger, northwest-flowing Moore Glacier , joining it from the northeast. It is located in the area of the easternmost subranges of the Roosevelt Range , between the H. H. Benedict Range to the southwest and the Daly Range to the northeast. This Greenland location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Lauge Koch Lauge Koch (5 July 1892 – 5 June 1964)
147-529: Is low, at about 30 mm (1.2 in) per month. Tides are semidiurnal, with the amplitude of 1.3 meters (4 ft 4 in). The fauna of the region is unusually rich for Greenland. This is because of several factors, such as availability of open water in the mouth, with polynyas not freezing even in winter, protection from the winds by the high relief, and relatively fertile land. The land animals include muskox , Arctic fox , stoat , mountain hare and lemming . Reindeer and Arctic wolf used to live in
168-788: Is the Gurreholm research station ( 71°14′43″N 24°35′01″W / 71.24528°N 24.58361°W / 71.24528; -24.58361 ), founded in 1937. During the Second World War it was the site of the US Coastguard ’s Bluie East Three weather station. The Hall Bredning basin splits into several branches including the Nordvestfjord, Ofjord ( Øfjord )—which splits into the Rype Fjord and Hare Fjord, Rode Fjord ( Røde Fjord ), Gase Fjord ( Gåsefjord ) and Fonfjord ( Fønfjord ). Between
189-483: The Bjorne Islands off the northeastern headland of Milne Land. The climate is Arctic , with the long cold winter and severe storms. The temperatures of January–March vary between –22.5 °C (-8.5 °F) and –8.4 °C (16.9 °F) with the average between –15 °C (5 °F) and –18 °C (0 °F) over the period 1971–1981. The mean summer temperatures are below 5 °C (41 °F). Precipitation
210-455: The Greenland Sea on the eastern coast of Greenland . It has a tree-like structure, with a main body approximately 110 km (68 mi) long that branches into a system of fjords covering an area of about 38,000 km (14,700 sq mi). The longest of the fjords extends 340–350 km (210-216 mi) inland from the coastline. The depth is 400–600 m (1,310-1,970 ft) in
231-602: The University of Copenhagen , where he began his studies in 1911, in 1920 he received a master's degree , and in 1929 a doctor's degree , having defended a dissertation on the topic " Stratigraphy of Greenland". He was the renowned leader of 24 Danish government expeditions to Greenland , and the central character in the Lauge Koch Controversy , an international and intra-national conflict. Beginning in December 1935
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#1732876802784252-673: The Ofjord and Fonfjord lies the largest island of the system, Milne Land . Among the islands in the Scoresby Sound the largest is by far Milne Land and the other islands in the sound are near it. Milne Land has an area of 3,913 km (1,511 sq mi) and is located to the west of the basin in a central position. Other islands are Storo and Sorte Island off the northwestern shore of Milne Land, Rode Island further south in Rode Fjord , Danmark Island off Milne Land's southern coast, and
273-472: The area include Arctic char , Greenland halibut , polar cod , cuttlefish , wolf fish and Greenland shark . Aquatic mammals are dominated by seals ( ringed , hooded , harbor , bearded and harp seal ) which feed on fish in winter (mostly polar cod ) and crustaceans in summer. Larger species include Atlantic walrus , narwhal and sometimes beluga whale . Atlantic walrus feeds on mussels , fish and ringed seals that urges ringed seals to disappear from
294-641: The area, but disappeared around the early 20th century. Birds are represented by barnacle goose , pink-footed goose , snow goose , whooper swan , king eider , common eider , long-tailed duck , Brunnich's guillemot , black guillemot , little auk , puffin , fulmar , herring gull , glaucous gull , great black-backed gull , kittiwake , Arctic tern , red-throated diver , great northern diver , red-breasted merganser , ptarmigan , raven, snowy owl , Greenlandic gyrfalcon , etc. Most of them are migrating species and form large colonies which may contain up to millions of individuals (for little auk). Fishes of
315-527: The fjord area in detail. The name “Sound” comes from the Scandinavian word “Sund” for “strait”, which is commonly used to describe narrow waterways between landmasses. Scoresby Sound lies between Jameson Land to the north, and King Christian IX Land to the south. To the west beyond Milne Island is the Renland peninsula . The land surrounding the fjord is mostly mountainous, with steep rising edges. The mouth
336-644: The former Greenland county of Tunu was named for Koch in honor of his explorations in the same areas. The coelacanth Laugia from the Early Triassic of Greenland is named in his honor. Koch was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the American Geographical Society in 1924, its Daly Medal in 1930, as well as the Vega medal of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography . In 1927 he
357-410: The main basin, but depths increase to up to 1,450 m (4,760 ft) in some fjords. It is one of the largest and longest fjord systems in the world. On the northern side of the mouth of the Scoresby Sound stands Ittoqqortoormiit , the only permanent settlement in the region, with a population of 469 (in 2010). The name of the sound honours English explorer William Scoresby , who in 1822 mapped
378-543: The skeleton of a huge extinct mammal similar to the head of a gigantic animal with huge teeth found by Professor Selim Hassan in 1935 near the pyramid of Chephren . The skeleton found by Koch was displayed at the museum in Copenhagen . Amongst his other contributions to the sciences, in the mid-1930s Koch established a network of field stations and traveling huts in Central East Greenland. This establishment of
399-595: The years 1921–23 in which Lauge Koch conducted the Bicentenary Jubilee Expedition to North Greenland in the year of the bicentennial jubilee of Hans Egede 's landing in Greenland, Koch made a sledge journey along the north coast of Greenland, round Peary Land and back across the Inland Ice. On this journey Koch discovered a depression which in his opinion was the one that Robert Peary in 1892 had mistaken for
420-512: Was a Danish geologist and Arctic explorer . Lauge Koch was born in 1892 to Karl and Elisabeth Koch. His development as a scientist was greatly influenced by his father's second cousin Johan Peter Koch - a polar explorer, a member of several Greenland expeditions, including Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen 's and Alfred Wegener 's (in the latter's expedition (1912-1913) to cross Greenland, he led a sledging party). He received his higher education at
441-787: Was awarded the Patron's Medal of the British Royal Geographical Society for his work in Greenland and the Hans Egede Medal of the Royal Danish Geographical Society . In 1949 he was awarded the Mary Clark Thompson Medal from the National Academy of Sciences . Scoresby Sound Scoresby Sound (Danish: Scoresby Sund , Greenlandic : Kangertittivaq ) is a large fjord system of
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