Little Pendulum Island

Little Pendulum Island (Template:Langx) 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 Irish scientist Edward Sabine swung the pendulum on the largest of the islands (Sabine Island).

Geography

Little Pendulum Island is located to the north east of Wollaston Foreland, and to the south of Shannon Island. Together with Sabine Island (formerly Inner Pendulum Island) and an islet named Walrus Island (Template:Langx) south of Sabine, it constitutes the Pendulum Islands.

File:Pendulum Islands.png 19th-century map of the Pendulum Islands. 2nd German Polar Expedition 1869–70.

See also

• List of islands of Greenland