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West Jensen Island

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Location
  
Lincoln Sea

Width
  
7 km (4.3 mi)

Highest elevation
  
944.88 m (3,100 ft)

Area
  
161.4 km²

Length
  
30 km (19 mi)

Coastline
  
68.2 km (42.38 mi)

Elevation
  
945 m

West Jensen Island

Zone
  
Northeast Greenland National Park

West Jensen Island (Danish: Vest Jensens Ø) is an uninhabited island of the Lincoln Sea in Peary Land, far northern Greenland.

Geography

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

References

West Jensen Island Wikipedia