Tobias Island

Tobias Island
Greenlandic: Tuppiap Qeqertaa
Danish: Tobias Ø
Tobias Island is located in Greenland
Tobias Island
Tobias Island
Location of Tobias Island
Geography
LocationGreenland Sea
Coordinates79°20′N 15°48′W / 79.333°N 15.800°W / 79.333; -15.800
Length2 km (1.2 mi)[1]
Width1.5 km (0.93 mi)
Administration
Northeast Greenland National Park
Demographics
Population0 (2013)

Tobias Island (Greenlandic: Tuppiap Qeqertaa, Danish: Tobias Ø) is a small island off the northeastern coast of Greenland.[2]

The island was named in honour of Greenlandic dogsled expert Tobias Gabrielsen who went with Johan Peter Koch and Aage Bertelsen to map the unknown eastern coast of Peary Land to the southeast of Cape Bridgman during the Denmark expedition 1906–1908, while Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen's ill-fated team went west to map the Independence Fjord.[3]

  1. ^ Ole Bennike, Naja Mikkelsen & Rene Forsberg: "Tobias Ø" - Grønlands Selskab (Danish)
  2. ^ "Tuppiap Qeqertaa". Mapcarta. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  3. ^ G. Amdrup: Report on the Danmark Expedition to the North-East Coast of Greenland 1906–1908. In: Meddelelser om Grønland 41, 1913, p. 124

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