Borup Island

Borup Island (Danish: Borup Ø),^[1] also known as West Jensen Island, is an uninhabited island of the Lincoln Sea in Peary Land, far northern Greenland. The island is named after George Borup, an American explorer.

Borup Island

Borup Ø
Satellite image of the northern end of Greenland
Map of Borup Island
Borup Island Location of Borup Island in Greenland
Geography
Location	Lincoln Sea
Coordinates	83°2′N 41°23′W
Area	183 km2 (71 sq mi)
Length	30 km (19 mi)
Width	7 km (4.3 mi)
Coastline	68.2 km (42.38 mi)
Highest elevation	945 m (3100 ft)
Administration
Greenland
Zone	Northeast Greenland National Park
Demographics
Population	0

The island was formerly named after Danish zoologist Adolf Severin Jensen (1866 - 1953), professor at the University of Copenhagen, who had carried out extensive research on the fisheries of West Greenland, and who was a member of the committee of the 1931–34 Three-year Expedition (Treårsekspeditionen)

Geography

It is a long island off the western side of the Nansen Land Peninsula on the other side of the Thomas Thomsen Fjord, part of the De Long Fjord system. Its eastern shore forms the western side of Adolf Jensen Fjord (Qajuutaq) ^[1] beyond which lies slightly larger MacMillan Island. Smaller Hanne Island lies 3 km to the north.^[2] East Jensen Island has an area of 161.4 km² (62.3 sq mi) and a shoreline of 68.2 km (42.4 mi).^[3]

Map of Northern Ellesmere Island and far Northern Greenland.

See also

• List of islands of Greenland