Traill Island

Traill (Danish Traill Ø), with its almost 3542 km ² area, the fourth largest island in Greenland and after Milneland the second largest island off the east coast of the autonomous nation. Administratively it belonged until 2008 to the province tunu ( " East Greenland " ), since 2009 the unincorporated area of the Northeast Greenland National Park.

The island is named after the Scottish jurist and zoologist Thomas Stewart Traill (1781-1862), the specific number of animals that brought William Scoresby of his explorations of the Arctic.

Geography

Traill is located off the east coast of Greenland, in the Greenland Sea. In the west and southwest of the King Oscar Fjord separates the island from Scoresby Land, and in the north of Vegas and of the Geographical Society Ø. In the east, the Mount Norris fjord cuts 25 km deep in the rugged island. Traill is about 110 km long and up to 48 km wide. Its highest point is given as 1,884 meters above the sea.