Geographical Society Island (Danish:
Geografisk Samfund Ø) is an island in
Tunu county, East
Greenland with area 1,717 km². To the north lies
Ymer Island, and to the south lies
Traill Ø. In the west, over
Kong Oscar Fjord lies
Ella Island.
It is mountainous with Svedenborg Fjeld as the highest point at 1,730 m.
Geology
From west to east, the rocks constituting the island are sandstone of roughly
devonian,
carboniferous and
cretaceous age, and some smaller areas with
triassic and
jurassic sandstone.
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