Английская Википедия:Carey Islands
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:About Шаблон:Infobox islands Шаблон:Location map The Carey Islands (Шаблон:Lang-da; Шаблон:Lang-kl) are an island group off Baffin Bay, in Avannaata municipality, northwest Greenland. Located relatively far offshore the Carey Islands are the westernmost point of Greenland as a territory. The sea surrounding the islands is clogged by ice most of the year.
Geography
The archipelago consists of six desolate islands, a few small islets and a number of rocks awash.[1] It is located about Шаблон:Convert to the west of Thule Air Base and Шаблон:Convert to the SW of Cape Parry.[2]
The nearest settlement is Moriusaq to the east on the coast of Greenland, abandoned since 2007.
Islands
Main islands
- Nordvestø, Isbjørneø and Mellemø form a compact cluster at the NW end of the archipelago.
- Nordvestø, the biggest island with a length of Шаблон:Convert and a width of nearly Шаблон:Convert. This island's western landhead is the westernmost point of Greenland. Its highest point is Шаблон:Convert.
- Isbjørneø and Mellemø, lying close to the east and forming a natural harbour between them and Nordvestø.
- Bordø and Björlingø, located further to the east; the latter has a Шаблон:Convert high peak and is named after Johan Alfred Björling.
- Fireø, lying in the southern area of the group.
Islets
- Hollænderhatten and Tyreøjet are two small islets to the east of Fireø having a diameter of a few hundred metres. there are also numerous other islets and rocks, especially in the western sector of the archipelago.[3]
Important Bird Area
The island group has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a breeding population of some 6,700 pairs of thick-billed murres, as well as other seabirds including glaucous gulls, razorbills, black guillemots and Atlantic puffins.[4]
History
The islands had been inhabited by the Inuit in the past; remains of their dwellings were found by Clements Markham in August 1851.[5]
The Carey Islands' were named by the 1616 Bylot-Baffin Arctic expedition after Allwin Carey, one of the financiers of the venture.[6]
Swedish naturalists Alfred Björling and Evald Kallstenius stopped at the Carey Islands in 1892 during an expedition on schooner Ripple to pick up supplies at a cache there. The Ripple, however, was driven on shore and wrecked. The men attempted to sail a small sloop back to Etah, but were forced to return to the Carey Islands.[7]
According to letters left by members of the ill-fated expedition in a cairn on the islands, the remaining four men attempted to sail their open boat 80 miles to Ellesmere Island: Шаблон:Quote
In June 1893, the crew of the Scottish whaler Aurora spotted a wreck on the Carey Islands. They found the Ripple, a man's body buried under a pile of stones, and Björling's letters.[8] No trace of the other four men, or the small boat, was ever found.
See also
- List of islands of Greenland
- List of countries by westernmost point
- Björling-Kallstenius Expedition
- Cape Alexander, Greenland
References
External links
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Carey Islands, Greenland
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite enroute
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Clements Robert Markham: Franklin’s footsteps. Chapman and Hall, London 1853, p. 115.
- ↑ Thomas Rundall. Narratives of Voyages towards the North-west, in search of a Passage to Cathay and India, 1496 to 1631. The Hakluyt Society, London 1849, S. 141.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег
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