page_title: Ymer Island
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Ymer Island / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Góry wyspy Ymers
context_page_description: Ymer Island is an island in northeastern Greenland. The island is a part of Northeast Greenland National Park.
  Ymer Island is named after the giant Ymir, the forefather of the Jotuns in Norse mythology.
context_section_description: The island lies on the southern side of the entrance of Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord, with the Antarctic Sound separating it from the Suess Land Peninsula. Ymer Island's northern half forms a peninsula named Gunnar Anderson Land having its narrow isthmus in the west. The fjord between the two halves of the island is named Dusen Fjord.
  Ymer Island has an area of 2,437 km². It is mountainous; Angelin Bjerg, its highest peak, reaches a height of 1900 m. Celsius Bjerg is located at the southeastern end of the island. 
  The conspicuous Devil's Castle (Teufelsschloss) is located on the other side of Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord, off the southern shore of Cape Petersens, the NW extremity of Ymer Island.
caption: Mountaintops in Ymer Island
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