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{{Short description|Island in Eastern Greenland}}
{{redirect|Pendulum Islands|the other island of the group|Sabine Island}}
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| native_name      = Lille Pedulum Ø
| native_name_link = Danish language
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| location         = [[Greenland Sea]], Eastern [[Greenland]]
| coordinates      = {{coord|74|40|N|18|28|W|type:isle_scale:500000|display=inline,title}}
| archipelago      = Pendulum Islands
| total_islands    = 3
| major_islands    =[[Sabine Island]], Little Pendulum
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| elevation_m =602
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'''Little Pendulum Island''' ({{langx|da|Lille Pedulum Ø}}) is an island in Eastern [[Greenland]], in the [[Northeast Greenland National Park]].

==History==
The island was named by [[Douglas Charles Clavering]]’s 1823 expedition, during which the [[Ireland|Irish]] scientist [[Edward Sabine]] swung the pendulum on the largest of the islands (Sabine Island).<ref>[https://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1781943 Wordie, J.M. (1927) The Cambridge Expedition to East Greenland in 1926. Geographical Journal 70 (3): 225-265]</ref>

==Geography==
Little Pendulum Island is located to the north east of [[Wollaston Foreland]], and to the south of [[Shannon Island]].<ref>[[GoogleEarth]]</ref> Together with [[Sabine Island]] (formerly Inner Pendulum Island) and an islet named Walrus Island ({{langx|da|Hvalros Ø}}) south of Sabine,<ref>[http://mapcarta.com/17866264 Hvalros Ø]</ref> it constitutes the Pendulum Islands. 
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|[[File:Pendulum Islands.png|thumb|320px|19th-century map of the Pendulum Islands. 2nd German Polar Expedition 1869–70.]]
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==See also==
*[[List of islands of Greenland]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
[[Category:Uninhabited islands of Greenland]]

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