Ymer Island ( Danish : Ymer Ø ) is an island in northeastern Greenland . The island is a part of Northeast Greenland National Park .
3-715: Ymer Island is named after the Swedish geographical journal Ymer , which published many accounts of Swedish expeditions to Spitsbergen and Greenland. The journal had been named after the giant Ymir , the forefather of the Jotuns in Norse mythology . The island lies on the southern side of the entrance of Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord , with the Antarctic Sound separating it from the Suess Land Peninsula. Ymer Island's northern half forms
6-459: A peninsula named Gunnar Anderson Land having its narrow isthmus in the west. The fjord between the two halves of the island is named Dusen Fjord . Ymer Island has an area of 2,437 km. It is mountainous; Angelin Bjerg , its highest peak, reaches a height of 1900 m. Celsius Bjerg is located at the southeastern end of the island. The conspicuous Devil's Castle (Teufelsschloss) is located on
9-592: The other side of Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord, off the southern shore of Cape Petersens , the NW extremity of Ymer Island. Ymer (journal) Ymer is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography . It was established in 1881 and published quarterly until 1965, when it converted to an annual rhythm. The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus . Ymer Island
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