Hochstetter Bay ( Danish : Hochstetterbugten ) is a broad bay in northeastern Greenland . It is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park area.
5-536: The name is said to have been in use from 1929 by Danish hunters, and first appeared on the maps of the 1932 Gefion Expedition . This bay is located between Hochstetter Foreland and Shannon Island to the north, Kuhn Island to the west, and Wollaston Foreland and the Pendulum Islands to the south. To the east, the bay opens to the Greenland Sea . Ardencaple Fjord and Grandjean Fjord have their mouths in
10-527: Is the peninsula's easternmost point. The peninsula has two distinct parts: The highest elevation of Queen Margrethe II Land is a 1,756 m (5,761 ft) high unnamed mountain in the southern part of Norlund Land. The main mountains in the peninsula are Møbius Bjerg and Schneekoppe in the north and the Barth Range , Matterhorn and Wildspitze in the southern area. This Greenland location article
15-549: The NE Greenland National Park area. The peninsula was named after Queen Margrethe II of Denmark on 16 April 1990 on the occasion of her 50th birthday. In 1932 a Norwegian hunting station was built at the southern end of Hochstetter Foreland, on the western shore of Peters Bay , by the mouth of Ardencaple Fjord . It was named Jonsbu (Jónsbú) after Norwegian trapper John Schjelderup Giæver (1901–1970). The station
20-418: The northwestern area of the bay, and Lindeman Fjord and Albrecht Bay in the southwestern. This Greenland location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Hochstetter Foreland Queen Margrethe II Land ( Danish : Dronning Margrethe II Land ) is a peninsula in the northern limit of King Christian X Land , northeastern Greenland . Administratively it belongs to
25-804: Was destroyed in World War II . Queen Margrethe II Land is bounded in the west by the Ejnar Mikkelsen Glacier , in the north by the Bessel Fjord , in the east by the Greenland Sea , in the southeast by the Shannon Sound —with Shannon Island across it to the east, and in the south by the Ardencaple Fjord and the Bredefjord . Adolf S. Jensen Land lies to the north of the Bessel Fjord. Haystack
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