{{Short description|Peninsula in Peary Land, Greenland}} {{Infobox peninsulas |name=Roosevelt Land |local_name= |image_name=North Greenland section-txu-pclmaps-oclc-8322829 a 1.jpg |image_caption=Map of far Northern Greenland. | map = Greenland | map_caption = |location=Peary Land, Greenland |coordinates={{coord|83|20|N|39|00|W|region:GL_scale:5000000|display=inline,title}} |area_km2= |length_km=70 |width_km=50 |highest_mount=Unnamed |elevation_m= 1555 |waterbody=<div>Conger Sound<br>Weyprecht Fjord<br>Harder Fjord<br>Lincoln Sea<br>Hunt Fjord<br>Benedict Fjord</div> |Country_heading= |country=Greenland (Denmark) |country_admin_divisions_title= |country_admin_divisions= |density_km2= |demonym= |population=Uninhabited |citizenships= }} '''Roosevelt Land''' ({{langx|da|Roosevelts Land}}) is a peninsula in far northern Greenland. It is a part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.<ref name="NA">[https://asiaq.maps.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=c5c7d9d52a264980a24911d7d33914b5 Nunat Aqqi; Stednavne]</ref><ref name="GM">Google Maps</ref>
The territory was named by Robert Peary after US President Theodore Roosevelt (1858 – 1919).<ref>[https://www.scribd.com/book/380583976/Race-to-the-Top-of-the-World-Richard-Byrd-and-the-First-Flight-to-the-North-Pole Race to the Top of the World: Richard Byrd and the First Flight to the North Pole]</ref>
==Geography== Roosevelt Land is located in western Peary Land, to the north of Amundsen Land, separated from it by the Harder Fjord, To the west it is limited by the Conger Sound, and to the east by Gertrud Rask Land. The northernmost headland is Cape Washington and the westernmost Cape Kane, both on the Lincoln Sea shore. The peninsula is mountainous, deeply cut by glaciated areas. The Roosevelt Range runs across Roosevelt Land eastwards. The main glacier is the Thomas Glacier.<ref name="GE">GoogleEarth</ref> The highest point is a {{convert|1555|m|ft|0}} summit found in the southern zone of the central part of the peninsula.<ref name="ONC">Operational Navigation Chart of part of Ellesmere Island and far Northern Greenland.</ref>
American geologist William E. Davies called the long mountain system to the north of J.P. Koch Fjord and Frederick E. Hyde Fjord the "Nansen-Jensen Alps", with the westernmost foothills in neighboring Nansen Land, stretching past the De Long Fjord area across Roosevelt Land and the Roosevelt Range, and reaching all the way to Johannes V. Jensen Land in the east.<ref name="WE_Davies">W. E. Davies, ''Landscape of Northern Greenland'' 1972</ref>
{| |- valign="top" |thumb|300px|Satellite image of the northern end of Greenland. |}
==Bibliography== *H.P. Trettin (ed.), ''Geology of the Innuitian Orogen and Arctic Platform of Canada and Greenland.'' 1991
==See also== *Innuitian orogeny
==References== {{reflist|30em}}
== External links == *[https://bioone.org/journals/acta-palaeontologica-polonica/volume-53/issue-1/app.2008.0110/The-Earliest-Annelids--Lower-Cambrian-Polychaetes-from-the-Sirius/10.4202/app.2008.0110.full The Earliest Annelids: Lower Cambrian Polychaetes from the Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, Peary Land, North Greenland] *[https://eng.gst.dk/media/2919245/181111_dgl_vestgronland_eng_skr_51_52-2018.pdf Greenland Pilot] Category:Peninsulas of Greenland Category:Peary Land
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