Little Pendulum Island
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Lille Pendulum ( also German "Little Pendulum Island " or "Little Pendulum " ) is an uninhabited island off the east coast of Greenland, in the Greenland Sea. Administratively it belonged until 2008 to the province tunu ( " East Greenland " ), since 2009 the unincorporated area of the Northeast Greenland National Park.
Geography
Lille Pendulum forms with the 5 km south-west to Sabine Island and some smaller islands and cliffs, the island group of the Pendulum Islands. These are the Wollaston Forland peninsula in front Northeast and form the southern boundary of the Hochstetter bay. About 30 km to the north lies the island of Shannon. East of Lille Pendulum is caused by regular winds that rush on the pack ice from coastal fast ice, one of the largest polynyas in East Greenland, the south of the Sabine Island usually ranges from Shannon to Walrus Island (Danish Hvalrosø ).
Between Cape Desbrowe in the south and in the north of Cape Buchenau Lille Pendulum has an area of 13 km. She is consistently 5 to 5.5 km wide, with the exception of far northeastern tip projecting cape Hartlaub. In Sonnenkopfbahn the island reaches 602 m with its highest point.
History
The Pendulum islands were first inhabited for several thousand years of Paleo- Eskimos of the Independence I and later by Inuit of the Dorset and Thule culture. In Lille Pendulum dwellings have been found that are attributable to the Thule culture. When the first Europeans entered the island, but they were already leaving.
Lille Pendulum has been safely seen as early as the 17th century by various whalers, especially by William Scoresby, who created in 1822 a first map of the Greenland coast between the 69th and 75th degree of north latitude. The actual discovery of the island by Europeans dating back to August 1823., The British Admiralty had in 1818 launched a program for the accurate determination of the earth's shape with the help of the seconds pendulum. Specially trained naval officers took on the British ships and led pendulum experiments in remote parts of the British Empire by. Among them was Edward Sabine, who later became President of the Royal Society. He had already in 1818 and from 1819 to 1820 accompanied the expeditions of John Ross and William Edward Parry to the discovery of the Northwest Passage. In 1823 he went on the HMS Griper under the command of Douglas Clavering to Hammerfest, Spitsbergen and the east coast of Greenland. After the Griper had passed the ice barrier of the East Greenland Current in the second week of August, she sailed north and reached the middle of August 1823 Pendulum Islands, whose name recalls the pendulum experiments Sabines. Sabine they did not lead through to Lille Pendulum, but on the Observatories of the Sabine Peninsula Island, which was first described by Clavering as Inner Pendulum Iceland.
1869-1870 wintered the Second German North Polar Expedition with the screw steamer Germania Germania harbor, a bay of the Sabine Island. From here, undertook the expedition, led by Julius Payer, extended boat rides and dog sledding trips to the exploration and mapping of the adjacent coasts and visited Lille Pendulum. Many geographical names on the island go to the head of the expedition, Carl Koldewey back.
On 12 July 1926, the Cambridge East Greenland Expedition visited under the direction of James Wordie Lille Pendulum, and then repeated on the neighboring island, the pendulum experiments Sabines of 1823.