Naresland

Naresland (Danish Nares Land) is 1466 km ² area, the eight largest island of Greenland and the largest island off the north coast of the autonomous nation. Administratively it belonged until 2008 to the province Avannaa ( " North Greenland " ), since 2009 the unincorporated area of the Northeast Greenland National Park.

The island is named after the British navigator and Arctic explorer Sir George Nares, which was the first managed the passage of the Baffin Bay in the Arctic Ocean.

Geography

Naresland located a few kilometers off the northwest coast of Greenland in the Lincolnsee, a marginal sea of ​​the Arctic Ocean. The island is about 75 km long and up to 30 km wide; its highest point is specified is 1067 meters above the sea. Naresland is almost all year round surrounded by pack ice.