Store Koldewey

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Store Koldewey ( German " Great Koldewey " ) is an island off the east coast of Greenland, in the Greenland Sea. Administratively it belonged until 2008 to the province tunu / Østgrønland ( " East Greenland " ), since 2009 the unincorporated area of the Northeast Greenland National Park. It is named after Carl Koldewey, who explored the region in the context of the Second German North Polar Expedition 1869-1870.

Geography

The uninhabited island located 10 km south of the Germania Country peninsula, forming the eastern boundary of the 50 km wide, and including numerous islands Dove Cove ( Dove Bugt ). From the island of Shannon in the south Store Koldewey is around 60 km away. The elongated island is 65 km long, in east- west direction, but only up to 10 km wide in north-south direction. It has an area of 615 km ² and reaches a height of 971 meters above the sea.