Sabine Island

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name = Sabine Island


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native name = Sabine Ø
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location = East-Greenland
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Sabine Island is an island North East of Wollaston Foreland, previously known as "Inner Pendulum Island". It was named by the Second German North Polar Expedition 1869–70 as "Sabine Insel" for Edward Sabine, who carried out pendulum experiments on the island in 1823 [ [http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1781943 Wordie, J.M. (1927) The Cambridge Expedition to East Greenland in 1926. Geographical Journal 70 (3): 225-265] ] .

Sabine Island is 16 km long from Kap Neumayer in the north to Teddy Udkig in the south, and 14 km wide. The area measures 155.9 km², and the soreline 59.8 km. The highest elevation is 699 meters.

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