Daneborg lies on the south coast of
Wollaston Foreland peninsula of northeast
Greenland, at the mouth of
Young Sund emptying into
Greenland Sea. Daneborg serves as the headquarters for the
SIRIUS Patrol, the dog sled patrollers of the
Northeast Greenland National Park, the largest
national park in the world. The number of persons at the station is few and varies considerably from summer to winter. Daneborg is the most populated of stations in the park,
with an over-wintering population of 12.[1]History[
edit]See also:
History of Greenland during World War IIThe previous sledge patrol headquarters,
Eskimonaes (Eskimonæs), 27 km southwest of later Daneborg at Dødemandsbugten on the south coast of
Clavering Ø, which had also been the location of the last
Inuit settlement in Northeast Greenland (1823), was destroyed by German
World War II invaders on March 13, 1943. The story of the wartime efforts of the North-East Greenland Sledge Patrol under Ib Poulson were chronicled postwar by English author
David Armine Howarth in his 1951 book The Sledge Patrol.
[2]The station at the site of the current Daneborg was originally established in summer 1944, during World War II, under the command of Captain Strong of
US Coast Guard Cutter Storis near the trapping station
Sandodden, as an
American military weather station, and staffed with six men of the 8th Weather Squadron Detachment.At the end of the war, the station was taken over by the North East Greenland Sledge Patrol as their new regional headquarters and named Daneborg.
[3] Part of the station was built by material left behind at the German wartime station
Lille Koldeway further north, which had been established by
Operation Edelweiß II.@Plagioclase v intriguing
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