Ella Island

Ella Island

The Ella Island is located in East Greenland, in the Northeast Greenland National Park. Ella Island lies at the mouth of Kempe Fjord, at the northern end of King Oscar Fjord. To the east are the larger Traill Island and Geographical Society Island, and at the northern end are Maria Island and Ruth Island. The island has a surface area of 143.6 square kilometers and a coastline of 59.6 kilometers. Ella Island is bordered by Narwhal Sound on the west coast of the fjord. The Sirius Dog Sled Patrol has a small base on the north coast of the island, which is manned only in the summer. The Danish geologist and polar explorer Lauge Koch had a hut called Eagle's Nest on the north side of the island, and Thorvald Sørensen, a Danish botanist and evolutionary biologist, was on the island from 1931 to 1935. His observations were the basis for his 1941 Ph.D. thesis. The US military had a radio, weather and sled station on the island called Bluie East Four during World War II, and a meteorite classified as an L-6 chondrite was found on Ella Island in 1971.