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20-515: The range was visited in 1932 by a team of geologists belonging to Ejnar Mikkelsen 's Second East-Greenland Expedition . It was named after German naturalist Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann (1770–1840). In 1962, a VP-5 Lockheed P-2 Neptune on a patrol mission crashed into the slope of the Kronborg Glacier close to this range, killing all twelve men aboard. The crash site was finally discovered in 1966 when four geologists found it, but it

40-590: A Norwegian whaler in the summer of 1912. The so-called Alabama cottage has survived and was photographed during a visit by the Danish Navy inspection ship Ejnar Mikkelsen in September 2010. In 1924, he led an expedition to settle what later came to be Scoresbysund . In 1932, he led the "Second East-Greenland Expedition of the Scoresbysund Committee" that carried out the first archaeological excavations on

60-409: A direct part in the economy of the hunting families. Income is gained by trading these products, but these options are seasonal and variable. Ittoqqortoormiit lies near large populations of shrimp and Greenland halibut , but the presence of sea ice prevents the exploitation of these resources year-round, and as a result fishing has never been extensively developed in the municipality. Tourism, on

80-419: A few months a year. Norlandair operates two weekly flights from Reykjavík Airport and Akureyri Airport to Nerlerit Inaat. As of 2022, Air Greenland no longer had weekly flights from Kangerlussuaq and Nuuk . Local hunters have made a living from whale and polar bear hunting for generations, and it remains, up to the present, a significant cultural-economical factor in the area. Meat and by-products play

100-687: Is located on Liverpool Land , east of Hurry Inlet near the mouth of the northern shore of the Kangertittivaq fjord, which empties into the Greenland Sea . The time zone in Ittoqqortoormiit is UTC-02:00 , the same as most of Greenland's population. Until March 2024 it had previously been one hour ahead of most of Greenland. Ittoqqortoormiit was founded in 1925 by Ejnar Mikkelsen and some 80 Inuit settlers (70 persons from Tasiilaq and four families from western Greenland). They were brought on

120-506: The Alabama , became trapped in the ice of Shannon Island and, while he was exploring, the rest of the party returned home on a whaler . Remaining with his engineer, Iver Iversen, Mikkelsen succeeded through a series of hazardous sledge journeys. They recovered the lost records in a cairn at the head of Danmark Fjord , discovering that "the Peary Channel does not exist." Hence, he rebutted

140-670: The Georg Carl Amdrup expedition to Christian IX Land in East Greenland. He then served in the Baldwin-Ziegler North Pole Expedition to Franz Joseph Land , which took place from 1900 to 1902. With Ernest de Koven Leffingwell , he organized the Anglo-American polar expedition which wintered off Flaxman Island, Alaska , in 1906–07. They lost their ship, but in a sledge journey over the ice, they located

160-727: The Skaergaard intrusion by the shores of the Kangerlussuaq Fjord . In 1970, on his 90th birthday, a national tribute was paid to him in Denmark; he died in Copenhagen a few months later on 1 May 1971. In 2009, the Royal Danish Navy named the second Knud Rasmussen class patrol vessel the HDMS ; Ejnar Mikkelsen . The Ejnar Mikkelsen Range is named after him. The film Against

180-762: The Wiedemann Fjord , bound by the Kronborg Glacier to the west —beyond which rises the Lilloise Range — and the Borggraven Glacier to the east. The area of the range is uninhabited. Ejnar Mikkelsen Ejnar Mikkelsen (23 December 1880 – 1 May 1971) was a Danish polar explorer and writer. He is most known for his expeditions to Greenland . Mikkelsen was born on 23 December 1880, in Vester Brønderslev, Jutland . In 1900, he served in

200-542: The colonization was intended to improve declining living conditions in Tasiilaq, from where the settlers were more or less voluntarily transferred. The settlers soon prospered on the good hunting conditions of the new area, which was rich in seals , walruses , narwhals , polar bears and Arctic foxes . Before that, the area itself had been home to a dense population of Inuit in the past, as testified by ruins and other archeological remains. Ittoqqortoormiit Municipality

220-604: The continental shelf of the Arctic Ocean , 65 miles (105 km) offshore, where in a span of 2 miles (3.2 km), the sea's depth increased from 50 meters (160 feet) to more than 690 meters (2,260 feet). Mikkelsen organized an expedition to map the northeast coast of Greenland and to recover the bodies of the ill-fated Denmark expedition leader, Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen , and cartographer, Niels Peter Høeg Hagen , in addition to their records. For this task, Mikkelsen wintered from 1909 to 1910 at Shannon Island . His wooden ship,

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240-401: The 10 °C (50 °F) threshold that would allow tree growth. This coupled with an average annual temperature of −5.0 °C (23.0 °F) makes Ittoqqortoormiit one of the coldest permanently inhabited locations on Earth. In the afternoon of 22 February 2005, the time of year that is normally the coldest, the temperature in the village briefly reached +15.9 °C (60.6 °F) due to

260-509: The Ice , released on 2 March 2022, depicts Mikkelsen's most famous ordeal. He was portrayed by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau . Scoresbysund Ittoqqortoormiit ( East Greenlandic : [itːɔqːɔtːɔːmːiːt] ; West Greenlandic : Illoqqortoormiut [iɬːɔqːɔtːɔːmːiut] ), formerly known as Scoresbysund , is a settlement in the Sermersooq municipality in eastern Greenland . Its population

280-428: The existence of a hypothetical sound or marine channel running from east to west separating Peary Land in northernmost Greenland from the mainland further south. The two explorers returned to Shannon Island to find the crew gone, but they used salvaged timbers and planking to erect a small cottage. Mikkelsen and Iversen then spent two winters at the cottage before they were rescued, in the direst of extremities, by

300-517: The other hand, is growing in importance because it is of interest to researchers and extreme Arctic expeditions on land and by sea. Ittoqqortoormiit is the closest town in Greenland from Iceland and its ecosystem, hunting culture and remoteness are of interest to a growing number of travelers primarily from Europe. A local company, Nanu Travel, owns the only guest house in the settlement and arranges tours and expedition logistics for visitors. The Guest House

320-468: The ship Gustav Holm and settled 400 kilometres (249 miles) south of the last known Inuit settlement in northeastern Greenland ( Eskimonæs at Dødemandsbugten on the south coast of Clavering Ø , 27 km (17 miles) southwest of later Daneborg , 1823). The settlement was encouraged by the colonial power Denmark which at the time had a growing interest in Northeast Greenland. At the same time,

340-568: Was 345 as of 2020, and it has been described as one of the most remote settlements on Earth. The former name Scoresbysund derives from the English Arctic explorer and whaler William Scoresby , who was the first European to map the area in 1822. The name "Ittoqqortoormiit" means "Big-House Dwellers" in the Eastern Greenlandic dialect. The region is known for its wildlife, including polar bears , muskoxen , and seals. Ittoqqortoormiit

360-487: Was a former municipality of Greenland. It is now part of Sermersooq Municipality . Starting October 30, 2023, the area was moved from East Greenland Time to West Greenland Time, one hour ahead. Ittoqqortoormiit is one of the most remote towns in Greenland. It is served by Ittoqqortoormiit Heliport , with Air Greenland helicopters shuttling passengers between the settlement and Nerlerit Inaat Airport (38 km (24 mi) distance), with boat transfer also possible for

380-502: Was featured in the hotels.com #RemoteAF campaign in 2018 because of its status as one of the most remote hotels on earth. The buildings at the abandoned Uunarteq settlement, also known as Kap Tobin , 4.3 miles south of Ittoqqortoormiit, are used for various purposes all year by the inhabitants of Ittoqqortoormiit. Ittoqqortoormiit is twinned with: Ittoqqortoormiit features a tundra climate ( Köppen ET ) with bitterly cold winters, chilly summers and no monthly average even close to

400-563: Was not until 2004 that the US Navy recovered all the crew remains and memorialized the deceased at the crash site. The Wiedemann Range is an up to 1,715 m (5,627 ft) high mountain massif made up of nunataks . The southern end of the range rises close to the sea, in the Denmark Strait area, north of Cape Stephensen and NW of the Vedel Fjord . It stretches northwards at the head of

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