Sokongen Island
island in Greenland
Sokongen (Danish: Søkongen Ø) is an island in the Sermersooq municipality, in eastern Greenland.
Geography
Sokongen is a coastal island that lies between the Nansen Fjord to the northeast and the J.A.D. Jensen Fjord to the southwest. It is located in an indented area of the eastern Greenland shore where there is a succession of headlands with active glaciers in between.
The island is 26 kilometres (16 miles) in length and its maximum width is 15 kilometres (9 miles).
Its SE headland is Cape J.A.D. Jensen (68°10'N., 29°48'W.), a massive rocky promontory with steep dark basalt cliffs rising almost 1,000 over the sea, located 15 km to the SW of Cape Nansen.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7555291. Authority coordinates are 68.217, -29.900. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.
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