Geographical Society Island

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Geographical Society Ø ( Danish also Geografisk Samfund Ø ) is a 1717 km ² large island to the northeast of Greenland. The island was named in 1899 by Alfred Gabriel Nathorst by the Royal Geographical Society.

The administratively to the Northeast Greenland National Park lies south of the island belonging to Ymer Island and north of Traill Island, separated from the latter by the Sofia or the Vega Sound. In the West, on the other side of the King Oscar Fjord, is Ella Ø.

The highest elevation of the island is mountainous Svedenborg Bjerg in the West with 1730 m.

Geology

From west to east, the island consists of sandstone rocks of Devonian, Carboniferous and Cretaceous - age, some smaller areas have sandstone of Triassic and Jurassic.