{{Short description|Peninsula in Greenland}} {{Infobox peninsulas |name=Wulff Land |local_name= |image_name= |image_caption= |image_size=300px |image_alt= | map = Greenland | map_caption = |location=NW Greenland |coordinates={{coord|82|0|N|48|0|W|region:GL_scale:5000000|display=inline,title}} |area_km2= |length_km=150 |width_km=70 |highest_mount= |elevation_m=1128 |waterbody=<div>Sherard Osborn Fjord<br>Victoria Fjord</div> |Country_heading= |country=Greenland (Denmark) |country_admin_divisions_title= |country_admin_divisions= |density_km2= |demonym= |population=Uninhabited |citizenships= }} '''Wulff Land''' ({{langx|da|Wulffs Land}}) is a peninsula in far northwestern Greenland. Administratively it is a part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.<ref name="mapcarta">{{cite web|url=https://mapcarta.com/19183084|title=Wulff Land|work=Mapcarta|accessdate=3 March 2019}}</ref>
==History== Wulff Land was named after Swedish botanist and Arctic explorer Thorild Wulff (1867–1917), who went with Knud Rasmussen on the Second Thule Expedition and died from fatigue near Cape Agassiz in southern Peabody Bay.<ref name="EotA">Mark Nuttall, ''Encyclopedia of the Arctic'', p. 1744 </ref>
The Wulff Land peninsula is a barren and inhospitable place. Unlike Peary Land to the northeast, no remains of human habitation have been found.
==Geography== Wulff Land is located to the northeast of Warming Land and east of Hendrik Island across the Sherard Osborn Fjord. Nares Land lies to the east, across the Victoria Fjord and Stephenson Island to the northeast. Cape May in the Lincoln Sea is its northernmost headland.<ref name="prostar"/> To the south, the peninsula is attached to the mainland and its ice cap.<ref name="mapcarta"/>
Wulff Land is a largely unglaciated and mountainous peninsula with a large firn cap, The Sven Hedin Firn, in its northern part. There are lakes with a landlocked fjord structure in the southern part where the Blue Cliffs rise above one of the lakes.<ref name="GE">GoogleEarth</ref><ref name="mapcarta"/>
In the southwest lies Aage Bistrup Land, and west of it the Ryder Glacier, across which lies Permin Land.<ref name="prostar">''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute,'' p. 94</ref>
[[File:Operational Navigation Chart A-5, 3rd edition.jpg|thumb|center|300px|Map of part of Ellesmere Island and far Northern Greenland.]]
== Geology ==
A number of geological formations have been defined in Wulff Land, some of which are fossil-bearing. The Wulff Land Formation, a sequence of black mudstones and fine-grained black or green siltstones, was erected by Hurst & Surlyk in 1982.<ref name="larsen1987">{{Cite journal |last=Larsen |first=P-H. |last2=Escher |first2=J. C. |date=1987-12-31 |title=Additions to the lithostratigraphy of the Peary Land Group (Silurian) in western and central North Greenland |url=https://geusjournals.org/index.php/rapggu/article/view/7976/13846 |journal=Rapport Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse |issue=133 |pages=65-80 |doi=10.34194/rapggu.v133.7976 |via=Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland |doi-access=free}}{{Creative Commons text attribution notice|cc=by4|from this source=yes|url=https://geusjournals.org/index.php/rapggu/article/view/7976}}</ref> Trace fossils dating back to the Silurian period have been found in the formation.<ref name="larsen1987"/><ref name="Pickerill1988">{{Cite journal |last=Pickerill |first=R.K. |last2=Harland |first2=T.L. |date=1988-12-31 |title=Trace fossils from Silurian slope deposits, North Greenland |url=https://geusjournals.org/index.php/rapggu/article/view/8018 |journal=Rapport Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse |issue=137 |pages=119–133 |doi=10.34194/rapggu.v137.8018 |via=Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland |doi-access=free}}</ref>
==Bibliography== *H.P. Trettin (ed.), ''Geology of the Innuitian Orogen and Arctic Platform of Canada and Greenland''. Geological Survey of Canada (1991) {{ISBN|978-0660131313}} ==See also== *Cartographic expeditions to Greenland
==References== {{reflist|30em}}
== External links == *[http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/20/1/181 Silurian graptolites from N Greenland - Geological Society]
Category:Peninsulas of Greenland
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