title: Princess Thyra Island
text: # Princess Thyra Island
  
  Princess Thyra Island (Danish: Prinsesse Thyra Ø) is an uninhabited island of the Wandel Sea, Greenland. The island is within King Frederick VIII Land in the Northeast Greenland National Park. The island was named after Princess Thyra of Denmark.
  
  ## Geography
  
  This island is located east of Princess Margaret Island, to the northwest of Princess Dagmar Island close to the coast of far northeastern Greenland, in a bay of the Wandel Sea at the confluence of Denmark Sound and Independence Sound.
  
  The island has an area of 313 km ² and a shoreline of 85.7 kilometres. It was formerly part of Avannaa, originally Nordgrønland ("North Greenland"), one of the counties of Greenland until 31 December 2008.
  
  | Map of Far Northeastern Greenland. | 1911 map of NE Greenland showing Princess Thyra Island, but not Princess Dagmar Island. |
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