Ella Island, or Ella Ø, is an island in eastern Greenland

Greenland

Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe for...

, at the mouth of Kempe Fjord in the northern end of King Oscar Fjord

King Oscar Fjord

King Oscar Fjord is a fjord in East Greenland, marking the northern border of the peninsula Scoresby Land. It is a major fjord, 10–25 km wide, bounded by Traill Island and Geographical Society Island. In the inner and northern end of the fjord lies Ella Island. Lyell Land and Stauning's Alps lie to...

. The island is within Northeast Greenland National Park

Northeast Greenland National Park

Northeast Greenland National Park is the largest national park in the world, with an area of , making the park larger than 163 countries. It is the only national park in Greenland, and the most northerly national park in the world, its most northerly point reaching slightly further than the most...

. It was named by A.G. Nathorst

Alfred Gabriel Nathorst

Alfred Gabriel Nathorst was a Swedish Arctic explorer, geologist and palaeobotanist. Nathorst was born in Väderbrunn outside Nyköping and died in Stockholm.-Biography:He was born on November 7, 1850....

 during his 1899 expedition as Ellas Ö for his wife Amy Rafaela (called Ella) Windahl (1858–1936).

Lauge Koch

Lauge Koch

Lauge Koch was a Danish geologist and Arctic explorer.He was the renowned leader of 24 Danish government expeditions to Greenland, and the central character in the Lauge Koch Controversy, an international and intra-national conflict...

 had a cabin on the northern side of the island named Eagle's nest. The botanist Thorvald Sørensen

Thorvald Sørensen

Thorvald Julius Sørensen was a Danish botanist and evolutionary biologist.Sørensen was professor at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural College 1953-1955 and at the University of Copenhagen 1955-1972...

 spent the years 1931-1935 here. His observations formed the basis for his doctoral thesis in 1941.

During World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

, US forces had an installation on the island called Bluie East Four. The Sirius Sledge Patrol

Slædepatruljen Sirius

Slædepatruljen Sirius or informally Siriuspatruljen is a unique elite Danish navy unit that conducts long-range reconnaissance patrolling and enforces Danish sovereignty in the arctic wilderness of Northern and Eastern Greenland, an area that includes the largest national park in the...

 maintains a small base on the island which is manned only in summer.

In 1971 a meteorite

Meteorite

A meteorite is a natural object originating in outer space that survives impact with the Earth's surface. Meteorites can be big or small. Most meteorites derive from small astronomical objects called meteoroids, but they are also sometimes produced by impacts of asteroids...

 was found on Ella Island, classified as a L-6 chondrite

Chondrite

Chondrites are stony meteorites that have not been modified due to melting or differentiation of the parent body. They formed when various types of dust and small grains that were present in the early solar system accreted to form primitive asteroids...

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