Grinnell Land

Grinnell Land, a barren, mountainous Polar tract on the west side of Kennedy Channel (the northern continuation of Smith's Sound), which separates it from Greenland. It was discovered by Dr Hayes of Kane's expedition in 1854, and named after Henry Grinnell (1800–74), of New York, who had fitted out the expedition. Greely in 1882 thoroughly explored it. North and south it is covered with ice-caps; between them lie valleys that get quit of their snow in summer, and support herds of musk oxen and the usual Arctic fauna. In the interior he discovered Lake Hazen, 60 miles long, and two ranges of mountains, one containing a peak (Mount Arthur) 5000 feet high.—Another Grinnell Land, discovered by De Haven in 1850, lies further to the south-west, off the north-west extremity of North Devon Island.