Queen Louise Land


Queen Louise Land is a vast mountainous region located west of Dove Bay, King Frederik VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.
The highest point of Queen Louise Land is Gefiontinde, with a height of, the highest of the Gefiontinder group of peaks located at.
Geologically Queen Louise Land is made up of orthogneiss overlain by sedimentary rocks.

History

This remote area was named Dronning Louises Land after Queen Louise of Denmark, wife of King Frederik VIII of Denmark, by the ill-fated 1906–08 Denmark Expedition —the expedition that aimed to map one of the last unknown parts of Greenland. Danish Arctic explorer Alf Trolle claimed that this area had been originally named as Den Store Nanuták —The Big Nunatak.
Queen Louise Land was subsequently visited by the 1912–13 Danish Expedition to Queen Louise Land led by J.P. Koch, as well as the 1952–54 British North Greenland Expedition led by Commander James Simpson.

Geography

Surrounded by ice masses, Queen Louise Land is clearly delimited. It is an extensive area made up of several very large and numerous small nunataks. Its western boundary is the Greenland ice sheet and its eastern limits are the massive Storstrommen and L. Bistrup Brae glaciers. Kap Aage Bertelsen is a small headland at the confluence of the large Storstrømmen and L. Bistrup Bræ glaciers in the east. Dryasdal is a valley seasonally covered with Dryas octopetala flowers. The area of Queen Louise Land is uninhabited.
The main geographic divisions or parts of Queen Louise Land from north to south are:

Glaciers, ice caps, lakes and rivers

  • A.B. Drachmann Glacier, located in the southern part.
  • Ad Astra Ice Cap , large ice cap in the northern central area.
  • Admiralty Glacier, in the north of the central part.
  • Army ice cap, in the central part.
  • Borgjøkel, a glacier in the central part.
  • Britannia Glacier, in the north.
  • Britannia Sø, a lake.
  • Budolfi Isstrøm, a glacier in the southern part.
  • Ebbe Gletscher, a glacier in the southern part.
  • Eigil Sø, a lake.
  • Ejnar Gletscher, a glacier in the southern part.
  • Farimagsø, a lake.
  • Gultop Glacier, in the north.
  • Hastings Glacier, in the NW.
  • Kursbræ, a glacier in the southern part.
  • Metafor Glacier
  • Pony Glacier
  • Shell ice cap, small ice cap in the central area.
  • Søstersøer, twin lakes.
  • Strandelv, a river.
  • Sunderland Gletscher, in the NW.
  • Suzanne Brae, a branch of Britannia Glacier.
  • Trefork Glacier, in the central part.
  • Trefork Sø, a large lake.
  • Vedel Sø, a lake.

Mountains, nunataks and cliffs

Many of the mountains and massifs are little glaciated. Mountains are generally rounded and rarely craggy, but there are numerous cliffs. The average elevation is around 1,500 m.
  • Barrieren
  • Bohr Bjerg
  • Cloos Klippe, a cliff
  • Curie Klippe, a cliff
  • Dickens Bjerg
  • Dannebrogsfjeldene, range east of Revaltoppe
  • Dronningestolen
  • Durham Klippe, a cliff
  • Falkonerklippe, a nunatak
  • Farvel Nunatak, nunatak group
  • Fermi Klippe, cliff
  • Gefiontinder, peak group
  • Glückstadt Nunatak
  • Grimm Fjelde, hilly area
  • Gultop
  • Gundahl Knold
  • H.A. Jensen Bjerg
  • H.C. Andersen Fjelde, hilly area
  • Helgoland
  • Henius Nunatak
  • Hertugen, a dark peak
  • Hjelmen
  • Hvalryggen
  • Juel-Brockdorff Nunatak
  • Himmerland Hede, a plateau
  • Kaldbakur, a nunatak
  • Kap Bellevue
  • Kap Weinschenck
  • Kamæleon, a nunatak
  • Kelvin Klippe, a cliff
  • Krebs Bjerg
  • Laub Nunataks, nunatak group
  • Lembcke Bjerg, a nunatak
  • Lodlineklippe, a cliff
  • Monumentet, prominent rocky ridge by Pony Glacier
  • Morænevolden, moraine ridge
  • Newton Klippe, a cliff
  • Olsen Nunataks, nunatak group
  • Paletten, nunatak group
  • Poulsen Nunataks, nunatak group
  • Prins Axel Nunatak
  • Prinsessen, spectacular ice-covered peak
  • Prøvestenen, a nunatak
  • Punktum, a nunatak
  • Regnbueklippe, a cliff
  • Revaltoppe, a nunatak
  • Rutherford Bjerg
  • Sankt Vitus Bjerg
  • Savryggen, a nunatak
  • Splinten, rocky ridge
  • St. Andrews Klippe, a cliff
  • Suzanne Nunatak
  • Syvstjernen, nunatak group
  • Thomson Klippe, a cliff
  • Timeglasset, peak with two summits
  • Trekanten, a nunatak
  • Vinkelklippe, a cliff
  • Winston Bjerg
  • Zebra Klippe, the northern cliff of Juel-Brockdorff Nunatak