Sabine Island

Sabine Island

Sabine Island is located in the northeast of Wollaston Foreland, formerly known as Inner Pendulum Island. It lies within the Northeast Greenland National Park. The island is 16 km long from Kap Neumayer in the north towards Teddy Udkig in the south, and is 14 km wide. The highest point on the island is Keferstein at 699 meters. Other prominent peaks are Kronebjerg, Tafelbjerg and Søspidsen. Along with an islet called Walrus Island off its southern tip and Little Pendulum Island to the east, it forms the Pendulum Islands group. The island still has many Inuit huts. Sabine Island was named Sabine Insel during Koldewey's expedition, in honor of geophysicist General Sir Edward Sabine, who conducted pendulum gravimetric experiments in 1823 on the island. Sabine was a member of the 1823 Clavering Arctic Expedition, the only expedition to meet Inuit in Northeast Greenland.