Princess Thyra Island
Native name:
Prinsesse Thyra Ø
Satellite image of the northern end of Greenland including Princess Thyra Island
Map of Princess Thyra Island
Princess Thyra Island is located in Greenland
Princess Thyra Island
Princess Thyra Island
Location of Princess Thyra Island in Greenland
Etymologynamed after Princess Thyra of Denmark
Geography
Coordinates82°0′N 19°15′W / 82.000°N 19.250°W / 82.000; -19.250
Adjacent toWandel Sea
Area313 km2 (121 sq mi)
Area rank22nt largest in Greenland
Length36 km (22.4 mi)
Width28 km (17.4 mi)
Highest elevation76 m (249 ft)
Administration
Unincorporated areaNE Greenland National Park
Demographics
Population0 (2022)
Pop. density0/km2 (0/sq mi)
Ethnic groupsnone

Princess Thyra Island (Danish: Prinsesse Thyra Ø) is an uninhabited island of the Wandel Sea, Greenland. The island is within King Frederick VIII Land in the Northeast Greenland National Park.[1] The island was named after Princess Thyra of Denmark.

Geography

This island is located east of Princess Margaret Island, to the northwest of Princess Dagmar Island close to the coast of far northeastern Greenland, in a bay of the Wandel Sea at the confluence of Denmark Sound and Independence Sound.[2]

The island has an area of 313 km ² and a shoreline of 85.7 kilometres. It was formerly part of Avannaa, originally Nordgrønland ("North Greenland"), one of the counties of Greenland until 31 December 2008.

Map of Far Northeastern Greenland.
1911 map of NE Greenland showing Princess Thyra Island, but not Princess Dagmar Island.

See also

References

  1. Compiled by Per Ivar Haug (August 2005). Ingar Lomheim (ed.). "Islands". Gazetteer of Greenland. UBiT, Universitetsbiblioteket i Trondheim "University Library in Trondheim" (15). ISBN 82-7113-114-1. ISSN 1502-0800. Archived from the original on 2011-06-15.
  2. Prinsesse Thyra Ø


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