Clavering Island

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Clavering Ø ( German " Clavering Island " ) is a large, now uninhabited island off the east coast of Greenland. Administratively it belonged until 2008 to the province tunu ( " East Greenland " ), since 2009 the unincorporated area of the Northeast Greenland National Park.

Geography

The island is located in the Greenland Sea, just two kilometers south of Wollaston Foreland peninsula. From this it is separated by the Young Sund and the Tyrolerfjord, by Payer country to the west by the Rudi bay and Copelandfjord. Clavering Ø is about 58 km long, up to 40 km wide and has an area of ​​1535 km ², making it the seventh largest island of Greenland. Its highest point is specified by 1604 meters above the sea.

History

The island was named by the German North Polar Expedition 1869-1870 under Carl Koldewey Douglas Charles Clavering, a British polar explorer who had explored this region in 1823. Clavering came here in August 1823 a group of twelve Inuit whose behavior and appearance, he described scarce. His expedition was the first and last encounter of Europeans with this ethnic group. The expedition of Koldewey found before on the Clavering Island only dilapidated, uninhabited huts and other legacies of Nordostgrönländer that were probably extinct by 1850.