Joe Island | |
Local Name: | Joe Ø |
Map: | Greenland |
Location: | Kennedy Channel/Hall Basin Nares Strait |
Coordinates: | 81.2512°N -63.5295°W |
Area Km2: | 1.1 |
Length Km: | 1.2 |
Width Km: | 1 |
Elevation M: | 100 |
Country: | Greenland |
Country Admin Divisions Title: | Municipality |
Country Admin Divisions: | Avannaata |
Population: | 0 |
Joe Island (da|Joe Ø) is an island of the Nares Strait, Greenland. [1] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.
Joe Island was named after Joe (Ipiirvik or Ebierbing), an Inuit guide who accompanied Charles Francis Hall in the 1871 Polaris expedition.[2] [3]
Joe Island lies in the Kennedy Channel at the limit of the Hall Basin. It is located about 4 km north of Cape Morton, off the northern end of the Petermann Peninsula, to the northwest of the mouth of Petermann Fjord. The waters around the island are icebound most of the year.
The island is mushroom-shaped. It has an area of 1.1 km2 and an elevation of 100 meters.[4]