Little Pendulum Island
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Little Pendulum Island is an island to the north east of Wollaston Foreland
, Greenland
. Together with Sabine Island
(formerly Inner Pendulum Island), it constitutes the Pendulum Islands, 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).
Wollaston Foreland
Wollaston Foreland is a large peninsular land area bounded by Hochstetter Bay and Young Sund in East Greenland. It was named by William Scoresby in 1822 as a testimony of respect to William Hyde Wollaston....
, 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...
. Together with Sabine Island
Sabine Island
Sabine Island is an island to the northeast 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.Sabine Island is 16 km long...
(formerly Inner Pendulum Island), it constitutes the Pendulum Islands, named by Douglas Charles Clavering’s 1823 expedition, during which the Irish
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
scientist Edward Sabine
Edward Sabine
General Sir Edward Sabine KCB FRS was an Irish astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist and explorer.Two branches of Sabine's work in particular deserve very high credit: Determination of the length of the seconds pendulum, a simple pendulum whose time period on the surface of the Earth is two...
swung the pendulum on the largest of the islands (Sabine Island).