Gael Hamke Bay
Gael Hamke Bay is a large bay in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. The bay was named after a Dutch skipper that claimed to have discovered the bay in 1654.- Bay
- Description: bay in Greenland
- Also known as“Gael Hamkes Bay”“Gael Hamkes Bugt”“Hamkes Bugt”
- Category: body of water
- Location
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Latitude
74° north
Longitude
-20.5° or 20° 30′ west
Open location code
C96X2G22+22
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural = bay
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Venetian—“Gael Hamke Bay” goes by many names.
Gael Hamke BugtCatalan
Gael Hamke BugtCebuano
蓋爾·哈姆克斯灣Chinese
Gael Hamke BugtDanish
Gael Hamke BugtDutch
Galamkes (historical)Dutch
Galehamkes Landt (historical)Dutch
Gael Hamkes湾Japanese
Gael Hamke BugtSwedish
Gael Hamke BugtVenetian
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