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Sabine Island
Native name: Sabine Ø
Geography
Location East-Greenland
Coordinates 74°35′N 18°56′W / 74.583, -18.933Coordinates: 74°35′N 18°56′W / 74.583, -18.933


Administration
Flag of Greenland Greenland
County Tunu
Demographics
Population 0

Sabine Island is an island North East of Wollaston Foreland, previously known as Inner Pendulum Island. Danish ( d̥ænsɡ̊ is one of the North Germanic languages (also called Scandinavian languages a sub-group of the Germanic branch of the Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat meaning "Land of the Greenlanders" Grønland is a self-governing Danish Province located between the A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat meaning "Land of the Greenlanders" Grønland is a self-governing Danish Province located between the Greenland consists of three counties ( amt) Kitaa /Vestgrønland (West Greenland Tunu /Østgrønland (East Greenland and Tunu / Østgrønland (East Greenland is one of the three counties (''amt'' of Greenland. It was named by the Second German North Polar Expedition 1869–70 as Sabine Insel for Edward Sabine, who carried out pendulum experiments on the island in 1823[1]. German North Polar Expedition was a short series of mid-19th century German expeditions to the Arctic. General Sir Edward Sabine KCB FRS ( October 14, 1788 &ndash May 26, 1883) was an Irish Astronomer

References

  1. ^ Wordie, J.M. (1927) The Cambridge Expedition to East Greenland in 1926. Geographical Journal 70 (3): 225-265

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