Hall Land
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| Geography | |
|---|---|
| Location | NW Greenland |
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| Adjacent to | |
| Length | 150 km (93 mi) |
| Width | 70 km (43 mi) |
| Highest elevation | 1,094 m (3589 ft) |
| Highest point | Kayser Mountain |
| Administration | |
Greenland (Denmark) | |
Hall Land is a peninsula in far northwestern Greenland. It is a part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. Hall Land is one of the coldest places in Greenland.[1]
History
[edit | edit source]Hall Land was named after Charles Francis Hall, leader of the 1871 Polaris expedition.[2]
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.[3]
Geography
[edit | edit source]Hall Land is located to the northeast of Daugaard-Jensen Land and the southwest of Nyeboe Land. It is 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.[4] 1,094 metres (3,589 ft) high Kayser Mountain, the highest elevation of the peninsula, is located at the northeastern end of the range.[5]
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Climate
[edit | edit source]Hall Land experiences a tundra climate (Köppen: ET); with short, cool summers and long, severely frigid winters.[6]
| Climate data for Hall Land (81º41'N, 59º57'W, 105 m (344 ft) m AMSL) (1982-1999 data) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | −18.1 (−0.6) |
−9.5 (14.9) |
−15.3 (4.5) |
−4.5 (23.9) |
3.1 (37.6) |
13.7 (56.7) |
15.3 (59.5) |
16.1 (61.0) |
8.8 (47.8) |
−6.9 (19.6) |
−6.7 (19.9) |
−17.2 (1.0) |
16.1 (61.0) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −33.2 (−27.8) |
−31.7 (−25.1) |
−32.0 (−25.6) |
−21.6 (−6.9) |
−9.0 (15.8) |
2.0 (35.6) |
6.8 (44.2) |
4.0 (39.2) |
−5.7 (21.7) |
−18.5 (−1.3) |
−25.5 (−13.9) |
−31.3 (−24.3) |
−16.3 (2.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −35.9 (−32.6) |
−34.3 (−29.7) |
−34.7 (−30.5) |
−24.3 (−11.7) |
−11.2 (11.8) |
0.4 (32.7) |
5.1 (41.2) |
2.4 (36.3) |
−8.0 (17.6) |
−21.5 (−6.7) |
−28.6 (−19.5) |
−33.9 (−29.0) |
−18.7 (−1.7) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −38.5 (−37.3) |
−36.9 (−34.4) |
−37.6 (−35.7) |
−27.6 (−17.7) |
−14.0 (6.8) |
−1.4 (29.5) |
3.2 (37.8) |
0.4 (32.7) |
−10.5 (13.1) |
−24.8 (−12.6) |
−31.6 (−24.9) |
−36.7 (−34.1) |
−21.3 (−6.3) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −52.1 (−61.8) |
−51.7 (−61.1) |
−50.5 (−58.9) |
−42.5 (−44.5) |
−28.5 (−19.3) |
−15.3 (4.5) |
−3.8 (25.2) |
−13.6 (7.5) |
−30.4 (−22.7) |
−37.9 (−36.2) |
−44.8 (−48.6) |
−47.4 (−53.3) |
−52.1 (−61.8) |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 78.5 | 79.4 | 79.6 | 84.7 | 88.9 | 84.1 | 80.4 | 81.7 | 86.9 | 84.2 | 81.5 | 78.9 | 82.4 |
| Source: Danish Meteorological Institute (1991-1996 data)[7] (1982-1999 record lows)[8] | |||||||||||||
See also
[edit | edit source]References
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- ^ Clements R. Markham, The Lands of Silence, p. 300
- ^ Morten Meldgaard, (1986) The Greenland Caribou - Zoogeography, Taxonomy, and Population Dynamics, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). p. 44
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