Joe Island (Greenland)

Island in Greenland

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

Joe Island was named after Joe (Ipiirvik or Ebierbing), an Inuit guide who accompanied Charles Francis Hall in the 1871 Polaris expedition.^[2][3]

Geography

Joe Island lies in the Kennedy Channel at the limit of the Hall Basin. It is located about 4 km north of Cape Morton, off the northern end of the Petermann Peninsula, to the northwest of the mouth of Petermann Fjord. The waters around the island are icebound most of the year.

The island is mushroom-shaped. It has an area of 1.1 km² and an elevation of 100 meters.^[4]

See also

• List of islands of Greenland
• List of islands named after people

Bibliography

• George Nares Narrative of a voyage to the Polar Sea during 1875–6 in H.M. ships 'Alert' and 'Discovery'

References

1. "Joe Ø". Mapcarta. Retrieved 9 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

External links

• Fata Morgana, or superior mirage of Joe Island, off the west coast of Arctic Greenland, in Nares Strait