Kuhn Island

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Kuhn Ø ( German: " Kuhn Island " ) is an uninhabited island off the east coast of Greenland, in the Greenland Sea. Administratively it belonged until 2008 to the province tunu / Østgrønland ( " East Greenland " ), and since 2009 she is part of the unincorporated territory of the Northeast Greenland National Park.

Geography

The island is located in the Hochstetter cove northwest of Wollaston Forland Peninsula and is separated from it by the Lindeman Fjord. Behind the narrowest at the point only a little more than a kilometer wide Fligely fjord in west lies the Thomas Thomsen country. In a north-south direction between Cape Mosle and Cape Hamburg, the island is 27.5 km 38.5 km long, wide between Cape Givagt in the West and in the East Cape Maurer. The area of ​​the island is 634 km ². It is mountainous and reaches into the black wall has a height of 1130 m. From the northeast, the Bastiansbucht cuts deep into the island.

History

The Kuhn- island was discovered in 1869 by the Second German North Polar Expedition and named after the Austrian War Minister Franz Kuhn Kuhn box. Leader of the expedition with the screw steamer Germania and the Hansa schooner was Carl Koldewey.