Milne Land is a large 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...

. It is the third largest island of Greenland, after the main island of Greenland and Disko Island

Disko Island

Disko Island is a large island in Baffin Bay, off the west coast of Greenland. It has an area of , making it the second largest island of Greenland and one of the 100 largest islands in the world...

. It is named after British

United Kingdom

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 admiral David Milne

David Milne (admiral)

Admiral Sir David Milne, GCB, RN was a Royal Navy admiral.-Naval career:Born in Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland, he entered the Royal Navy as a midshipman in 1779...

. It is 113 km long from Moræne Pynt in the southwest to Bregnepynt in the northeast, and up to 45 km wide, and 3,913 km² in area. It is part of an archipelago

Archipelago

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, which includes Storø in the southwest, Ujuaakajiip Nunaa in the southeast, and the Bjørne Øer in the northeast. It is separated from Renland peninsula in the north by øfjord (6 to 10 km wide), from Gåseland peninsula in the south by Fønfjord (4 to 6 km wide), and from the mainland coast in the west by Rødefjord (4 to 14 km wide). The large peninsula in the east, Jameson Land

Jameson Land

Jameson Land is a peninsula in eastern Greenland, bounded to the southwest by Scoresby Sund , to the northwest by the Greenlandic mainland, to the north by Scoresby Land, and to the east by Carlsberg Fjord, Liverpool Land and Hurry Inlet.-Geology:Jameson Land mainly consists of a tilted peneplain...

 (with Liverpool Land

Liverpool Land

Liverpool Land is a peninsula in eastern Greenland.- Geography :The peninsula is bounded by Scoresby Sund in the south, Carlsberg Fjord in the northwest, Kangerterajiva in the southwest, the Greenland Sea in the east, and Jameson Land in the west...

 across Hurry Fjord), with the settlements of Ittoqqortoormiit

Ittoqqortoormiit

Ittoqqortoormiit is a settlement in the Sermersooq municipality in eastern Greenland. Its population is 469 as of 2010.The Danish name Scoresbysund derives from the name of the Arctic explorer and whaler William Scoresby, who was the first to map the area in 1822. The Greenlandic name...

 at its southern coast, is located more than 40 km across the Scoresby Sound.