Milneland

Milneland (Danish Milne Land, Greenlandish. Ilimananngip Nunaa ) is a large, uninhabited island in the east of Greenland. Administratively, they counted to the end of 2008 to the province tunu ( " East Greenland " ), since 2009 the municipality Sermersooq. For Europe discovered and mapped the island was by William Scoresby, who after Sir David Milne (1763-1845), a British admiral, named.

Geography

With approximately 3,900 km ² Milneland is after the main island of Greenland and Disko Island, the third largest island of the autonomous nation Greenland. The rugged and glaciated in many parts of the island is 113 km long and 45 km wide; its highest point is specified at 2200 meters above the sea. It lies deep in the west of Scoresbysunds, the largest fjord complex in the world, and is surrounded on three sides by the Greenland mainland. From this it is separated by the waters Hall Bredning Fønfjord, Røde Fjord and Øfjord. Milneland, together with the significantly smaller islands Storø, SORTEO, Bjørne Øer, Danmark Ø ( Ujuaakajiip Nunaa ) and rodeo an archipelago. From the nearest settlement Ittoqqortoormiit (Danish Scoresby ) at the eastern end of the fjord Milneland is around 100 km away.