Hall Land
  Location of Hall Land | |
| Geography | |
|---|---|
| Location | NW Greenland |
| Coordinates | 81°20′N 58°0′W / 81.333°N 58.000°WCoordinates: 81°20′N 58°0′W / 81.333°N 58.000°W |
| Adjacent bodies of water |
Hall Basin Newman Bay |
| Highest elevation | 1,067 m (3,501 ft) |
| Highest point | Kaiser Mountain |
| Administration | |
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Greenland (Denmark) | |
| Municipality | Qaasuitsup |
Hall Land is a peninsula in far northwestern Greenland. It is a part of the Qaasuitsup municipality. Hall Land is one of the coldest places in Greenland.[1]
The last live caribou reported from Northern Greenland were seen in Hall Land in 1922. They were most likely Peary caribou that had strayed across the channel from Ellesmere Island.[2]
Geography
Hall Land is located to the southwest of Nyeboes Land, surrounded to the north by the Robeson Channel of the Nares Strait and to the east by the Newman Bay. Hall Basin, the Petermann Fjord and the Petermann Glacier mark the western limits of Hall Land. To the south and southeast the peninsula is attached to the mainland and its ice cap.
The unglaciated Polaris Foreland lies in the northernmost part of Hall Land beyond the Haug Range.[3]
 Map of the Nares Strait area. |
See also
References
- ↑ Hall Land (Grønland)
- ↑ Morten Meldgaard, (1986) The Greenland Caribou - Zoogeography, Taxonomy, and Population Dynamics, ISBN 978-87-635-1180-3 p. 44
- ↑ "Hall Land". Mapcarta. Retrieved 10 April 2016.