Nares Land

Nares Land or Naresland is an island in far northern Greenland. The island is named after Polar explorer Sir George Nares.

Geography
The island lies between the Victoria Fjord and the Nordenskjöld Fjord separated from the Freuchen Land Peninsula of the mainland by a narrow sound. Stephenson Island and John Murray Island lie off its northern end. Nares Land is fairly large, with an area of 1,466 km2 and a shoreline of 192.4 km. It is 75 km long and up to 30 km wide in its widest place. It has an average elevation of 161 m and its highest point is 1067 m.

The area where the island lies has a severe Polar climate and was formerly part of Avannaa, originally Nordgrønland ("North Greenland"), a former county of Greenland until 31 December 2008. The sea around the island is frozen practically the whole year round.