Hall Land

Hall Land
Location within Greenland
Geography
LocationNW Greenland
Coordinates81°20′N 58°0′W / 81.333°N 58.000°W / 81.333; -58.000
Adjacent to
Length150 km (93 mi)
Width70 km (43 mi)
Highest elevation1,094 m (3589 ft)
Highest pointKayser Mountain
Administration
Greenland (Denmark)

Hall Land is a peninsula in far northwestern Greenland. It is a part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. Hall Land is one of the coldest places in Greenland.

Hall Land is the western limit of the Northeast Greenland National Park and for the Sirius Dog Sled Patrol.

History

Hall Land was named after Charles Francis Hall, leader of the 1871 Polaris expedition.

Ruins have been found in and around Hall Land, near Atka Elv and on Offley Ø, an island off southwestern Hall Land.

The last live caribou reported from Northern Greenland were seen in Hall Land in 1922. They were most likely Peary caribou that had strayed across the channel from Ellesmere Island, about 20 km (12 mi) to the northwest.

The closest caribou herd in Greenland to Hall Land today is in Inglefield Land, about 250 km (155 mi) to the southwest at the closest points between the landmasses.

Geography

Hall Land is located to the northeast of Daugaard-Jensen Land and Washington Land and to the southwest of Nyeboe Land. It is surrounded to the north by the Robeson Channel of the Nares Strait and to the east by the Newman Bay. Hall Basin, the Petermann Fjord and the Petermann Glacier mark the western limits of Hall Land. To the south and southeast the peninsula is attached to the mainland and its ice cap. South of Hall Land across the ice cap and east of Petermann Glacier lies Hellerup Land, a nunatak.

The unglaciated Polaris Foreland lies in the northern half of Hall Land beyond the Haug Range, while the southern half of Hall Land is ice cap. 1,094 metres (3,589 ft) high Kayser Mountain, the highest elevation of the peninsula, is located at the northeastern end of the range.

Map of the Nares Strait area.

Climate

Hall Land experiences a tundra climate (Köppen: ET); with short, cool summers and long, severely frigid winters.

Climate data for Hall Land (81º41'N, 59º57'W, 105 m (344 ft) m AMSL) (1982-1999 data)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) −18.1
(−0.6)		 −9.5
(14.9)		 −15.3
(4.5)		 −4.5
(23.9)		 3.1
(37.6)		 13.7
(56.7)		 15.3
(59.5)		 16.1
(61.0)		 8.8
(47.8)		 −6.9
(19.6)		 −6.7
(19.9)		 −17.2
(1.0)		 16.1
(61.0)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) −33.2
(−27.8)		 −31.7
(−25.1)		 −32.0
(−25.6)		 −21.6
(−6.9)		 −9.0
(15.8)		 2.0
(35.6)		 6.8
(44.2)		 4.0
(39.2)		 −5.7
(21.7)		 −18.5
(−1.3)		 −25.5
(−13.9)		 −31.3
(−24.3)		 −16.3
(2.7)
Daily mean °C (°F) −35.9
(−32.6)		 −34.3
(−29.7)		 −34.7
(−30.5)		 −24.3
(−11.7)		 −11.2
(11.8)		 0.4
(32.7)		 5.1
(41.2)		 2.4
(36.3)		 −8.0
(17.6)		 −21.5
(−6.7)		 −28.6
(−19.5)		 −33.9
(−29.0)		 −18.7
(−1.7)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −38.5
(−37.3)		 −36.9
(−34.4)		 −37.6
(−35.7)		 −27.6
(−17.7)		 −14.0
(6.8)		 −1.4
(29.5)		 3.2
(37.8)		 0.4
(32.7)		 −10.5
(13.1)		 −24.8
(−12.6)		 −31.6
(−24.9)		 −36.7
(−34.1)		 −21.3
(−6.3)
Record low °C (°F) −52.1
(−61.8)		 −51.7
(−61.1)		 −50.5
(−58.9)		 −42.5
(−44.5)		 −28.5
(−19.3)		 −15.3
(4.5)		 −3.8
(25.2)		 −13.6
(7.5)		 −30.4
(−22.7)		 −37.9
(−36.2)		 −44.8
(−48.6)		 −47.4
(−53.3)		 −52.1
(−61.8)
Average relative humidity (%) 78.5 79.4 79.6 84.7 88.9 84.1 80.4 81.7 86.9 84.2 81.5 78.9 82.4
Source: Danish Meteorological Institute (1991-1996 data) (1982-1999 record lows)

See also

References

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  2. ↑ Clements R. Markham, The Lands of Silence, p. 300
  3. 1 2 "Nunat aqqi". nunataqqi.gl. Retrieved 2026-11-04.
  4. ↑ Morten Meldgaard, (1986) The Greenland Caribou - Zoogeography, Taxonomy, and Population Dynamics, ISBN 978-87-635-1180-3 p. 44
  5. ↑ Cuyler, Christine (14 May 2020). Supplementary materials to the biological advice for caribou and muskoxen harvest in 2020 (PDF) (Report). Greenland Institute of Natural Resources.
  6. ↑ "Hall Land". Mapcarta. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  7. ↑ GoogleEarth
  8. ↑ Beck, Hylke E; McVicar, Tim R; Vergopolan, Noemi; et al. (October 23, 2023). "High-resolution (1 km) Köppen-Geiger maps for 1901–2099 based on constrained CMIP6 projections". Nature. Retrieved July 15, 2025.
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  10. ↑ Cappelen, J; Jørgensen, Bent Vraae (2000). Buus-Hinkler, J; Rasmussen, T; Scharling, M (eds.). "Klimaobservationer i Grønland, 1958-99 - med klimanormaler 1961-90" (PDF) (in Danish). Danish Meteorological Institute - Ministry of Transport. Retrieved July 15, 2025.