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Lockwood Island

Coordinates: 83°21′N 39°20′W / 83.350°N 39.333°W / 83.350; -39.333
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Lockwood Island
Lockwood Ø
Map of part of Ellesmere Island and far Northern Greenland.
Lockwood Island is located in Greenland
Lockwood Island
Lockwood Island
Geography
LocationWeyprecht Fjord
Lincoln Sea
Coordinates83°21′N 39°20′W / 83.350°N 39.333°W / 83.350; -39.333
Length12 km (7.5 mi)
Width5 km (3.1 mi)
Highest elevation760 m (2490 ft)[1]
Highest pointMount Schley
Administration
ZoneNortheast Greenland National Park
Demographics
Population0

Lockwood Island (Danish: Lockwood Ø) is an island of the Lincoln Sea, Greenland.[2] Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park.

Lockwood Island is the northernmost sizeable coastal island of Greenland. The waters around the island are frozen the year round.

History

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This island was named after U.S. Arctic explorer James Booth Lockwood (1852-1884). Lockwood and Sgt. David Legge Brainard achieved a new "farthest north" record of 83°23'8" on the island at the time of Greely's Lady Franklin Bay Expedition.[3]

Geography

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Lockwood Island is located at the mouth of Weyprecht Fjord, its western shore forming the eastern side of the area at the entrance of the fjord. On the eastern shore of the island 3 km (1.9 mi) broad Conger Sound separates it from Cape Kane in Roosevelt Land in the mainland whose northernmost point is Cape Washington to the east beyond Hunt Fjord. The island rises to a height of 760 m (2,490 ft) at Mount Schley.[1][2]

Cape Christiansen is the headland at the northern end and small Brainard Island lies 2.7 km (1.7 mi) west of the island's western shore. The waters around Lockwood Island are icebound most of the year.[4]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Nunat Aqqi; Stednavne
  2. ^ a b "Lockwood Ø". Mapcarta. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  3. ^ Geographical Items on North Greenland Encyclopedia Arctica 14: Greenland
  4. ^ Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 95
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