Hannah Island
Hannah Ø
Hannah Island is located in Greenland
Hannah Island
Hannah Island
Geography
LocationKennedy Channel
Nares Strait
Coordinates81°08′00″N 63°25′00″W / 81.13333°N 63.41667°W / 81.13333; -63.41667
Area0.5 km2 (0.19 sq mi)
Length0.9 km (0.56 mi)
Width0.6 km (0.37 mi)
Highest elevation36 m (118 ft)
Administration
MunicipalityAvannaata
Demographics
Population0

Hannah Island (Danish: Hannah Ø) is an island of the Nares Strait, Greenland. [1] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.

Hannah Island was named after Hannah (Tookoolito), an Inuit guide who accompanied Charles Francis Hall in the 1871 Polaris expedition.[2][3]

Geography

Hannah Island lies in the mouth of Bessel Fjord and northeast of Cape Bryan by the Kennedy Channel. The waters around the island are frozen most of the year.

The island consists of a huge mound of pebbles and drift, probably the deposit of an ancient glacier. It has an area of 0.5 km2 and an elevation of 36 meters.[4] Lichens and lichenicolous fungi grow on the island.[5]

Map of part of Ellesmere Island and far Northern Greenland.

See also

Bibliography

  • Edward L. Moss, Shores of the polar sea

References

  1. "Bessel Fjord". Mapcarta. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
  2. Clements R. Markham, The Lands of Silence, p. 300
  3. Hannah and Joe on the Map - Nunatsiaq News
  4. Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 93
  5. The Lichenicolous Fungi of Greenland, p. 6
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