Peary Land
peninusula in Greenland
Peary Land is a peninsula in northern Greenland, extending into the Arctic Ocean. It reaches from Victoria Fjord in the west to Independence Fjord in the south and southeast, and to the Arctic Ocean in the north, with Cape Morris Jesup, the northernmost point of Greenland's mainland, and Cape Bridgman in the northeast.
History
Ancient settlements
Peary Land was historically inhabited by three separate cultures, during which times the climate was milder than presently. It contains the northernmost ruins on earth, an archaeological site found in 2023.
Independence I culture, Paleo-Eskimo (around 2000 BC, oldest remains dating from 2400 BC)
Independence II culture, Paleo-Eskimo (800 BC to 200 BC)
Thule culture (ancestral to the modern Inuit, around AD 1300)
Peary's explorations
The area is named after Robert E. Peary, who first explored it during his expedition of 1891 to 1892. Originally, Peary Land was believed to be an island, separated from the main island by the so-called Peary Channel, an assumed connection between Nordenskiöld Fjord and Independence Fjord which in fact does not exist. Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen (1872–1907), the ill-fated leader of the Denmark expedition, searched in vain for the Peary Channel in 1907 and was misled to his death by existing maps. Knud Rasmussen's First Thule Expedition confirmed in 1912 that Peary Land is a peninsula. There are more than 200 kilometres (120 mi) of dry land up to 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) high between Nordenskiöld Fjord and Independence Fjord.
Research and mining
There are two Arctic research stations on Jørgen Brønlund Fjord: Brønlundhus (erected in 1948) and Cape Harald Moltke (erected in 1972).
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