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and the ruins of the two former stations lay now abandoned and remain essentially undisturbed as a conspicuous memorial to war-time events. The efforts of the North-East Greenland Sledge Patrol led by Ib Poulson in World War II were chronicled after the war by English author
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bones suggest that the Inuit were reduced to hunting smaller game after the extinction of muskoxen in the area. After humans died out, muskoxen returned, and the first pair of live muskoxen ever to be brought to
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European visitors to Northeast Greenland prior to 1823 reported evidence of extensive Inuit settlement in the region although they encountered no humans. Later expeditions, starting with the Second
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encountered a band of twelve Inuit, including men, women and children. In his journal, Clavering described their seal-skin tent, canoe, and clothes, their harpoons and spear tipped with bone and
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on the 1823 voyage, which explored the area and, at the southern shore of this island made the first (and last) encounter that Europeans made with the now extinct
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after Eskimonæs was destroyed. The main building at Eskimonaes was burnt by a German military patrol on 25 March 1943, and the site was bombed by the
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Station, also known as Ny Station, which was built nearby further to the east later in the same year. Dødemandsbugten would be succeeded in 1944 by
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in 1869, found the remains of many former settlements, but the population had apparently died out during the intervening years.
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and the island has an area of 1,534.6 km (592.5 sq mi) and a shoreline of 165.4 km (102.8 mi). The
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is an up to 1,200-metre-high (3,900 ft) mountain chain on the southwest part of Clavering Island that was named by
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have been found at Inuit sites on the island, but no such animals were reported by Clavering in 1823. Large numbers of
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radio and weather station was on this island. It was staffed by Danish scientists and was captured by
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station stood on a small peninsula in the south coast of Clavering Island. The place had been named
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Clavering Island is a coastal island, separated from the mainland by fjords and sounds of the
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in 1943. The place where the station stood had also been the location of the last
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Eskimo settlements in Northeast Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 144(6), 40 pp.
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Vibe, Christian (1967). "Arctic Animals in Relation to Climatic Fluctuations".
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1870 map of the Northern Portion of Eastern Greenland showing coastal islands.
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The Sledge Patrol: One of the Greatest Adventure Stories of World War II
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on 14 May the same year. The burnt out station would be replaced by
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During the war, the code name used for the Eskimonæs Station by the
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bounds the island in the north, with its extension, the
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Index

Native name

Lauge Koch
Clavering Island is located in Greenland
Douglas Charles Clavering
Greenland Sea
74°16′N 21°00′W / 74.267°N 21.000°W / 74.267; -21.000
Area rank
largest in Greenland
Ortlerspids
Greenland
Unincorporated area
NE Greenland National Park
Danish
Greenland
Gael Hamke Bay
Wollaston Foreland
German troops
Inuit
German North Polar Expedition
Douglas Charles Clavering
Griper
Northeast-Greenland Inuit
meteoric iron
German North Polar Expedition
muskoxen
Arctic hare
Europe
telegraph
1929-30 Expedition to East Greenland

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