page_title: Queen Louise Land
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Queen Louise Land / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: 1:1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart, Sheet B-9, 1st edition. Covers Greenland (Denmark). Lambert Conformal Conic Projection. Standard Parallels 73 20N and 78 40N. Central longitude 32 45W.
context_page_description: Queen Louise Land is a vast mountainous region located west of Dove Bay, King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.
  The highest point of Queen Louise Land is Gefiontinde, with a height of 2,364.3 m, the highest of the Gefiontinder group of peaks located at 76°28′8″N 25°38′31″W.
  Geologically Queen Louise Land is made up of orthogneiss overlain by sedimentary rocks.
context_section_description: Surrounded by ice masses, Queen Louise Land is clearly delimited. It is an extensive area made up of several very large and numerous small nunataks. Its western boundary is the Greenland ice sheet and its eastern limits are the massive Storstrommen and L. Bistrup Brae glaciers. Kap Aage Bertelsen is a small headland at the confluence of the large Storstrømmen and L. Bistrup Bræ glaciers in the east. Dryasdal is a valley seasonally covered with Dryas octopetala flowers. The area of Queen Louise Land is uninhabited.
  The main geographic divisions or parts of Queen Louise Land from north to south are:
  Ymer Nunatak, a large nunatak located at the northern end. The Britannia Glacier is between Ymer Nunatak and the northern end of main Queen Louise Land.
  Central Queen Louise Land, the main part or Queen Louise Land proper.
  Carlsbergfondet Land, the SW part of Dronning Louise Land, between Borgjøkel and A.B. Drachmann Glacier.
  Eventyrfjelde, the southernmost part of Dronning Louise Land, south of A.B. Drachmann Glacier.
caption: Defense Mapping Agency map of Northeastern Greenland.
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