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H.H. Benedict Range
The H. H. Benedict Range or H. H. Benedict Mountains ( da, H. H. Benedict Bjerge) is a mountain range in Peary Land, Northern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. The H. H. Benedict range is part of the northernmost mountain system in the world.2002 American Alpine Journal, p.286 The area where its ridges rise is barren and uninhabited. History The mountain chain was named by Robert Peary after Henry H. Benedict (1844–1935), one of the founding members of the Peary Arctic Club in New York. Besides his financial support Mr Benedict had gifted a pianola for the entertainment of the members of the expedition.Robert Edwin Peary, ''The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club.'' Peary saw the range from a distance, but didn't explore it. Aerial surveys begun by Lauge Koch in the 1920s mapped the area and Danish surveyors named some features. Only in 1996 did an expedition climb the highest poi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenland
Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland is the world's largest island. It is one of three constituent countries that form the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark and the Faroe Islands; the citizens of these countries are all citizens of Denmark and the European Union. Greenland's capital is Nuuk. Though a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe (specifically Norway and Denmark, the colonial powers) for more than a millennium, beginning in 986.The Fate of Greenland's Vikings , by Dale Mackenzie Brown, ''Archaeological Institute of America'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauge Koch
Lauge Koch (5 July 1892 – 5 June 1964) was a Danish geologist and Arctic explorer. Biography Lauge Koch was born in 1892 to Karl and Elisabeth Koch. His development as a scientist was greatly influenced by his father's second cousin Johan Peter Koch - a polar explorer, a member of several Greenland expeditions, including Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen's and Alfred Wegener's (in the latter's expedition (1912-1913) to cross Greenland, he led a sledging party). He received his higher education at the University of Copenhagen, where he began his studies in 1911, in 1920 he received a master's degree, and in 1929 a doctor's degree, having defended a dissertation on the topic "Stratigraphy of Greenland". General He was the renowned leader of 24 Danish government expeditions to Greenland, and the central character in the ''Lauge Koch Controversy'', an international and intra-national conflict. Beginning in December 1935 a bitter conflict arose between Koch and eleven of the most prominent Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellesmere Island
Ellesmere Island ( iu, script=Latn, Umingmak Nuna, lit=land of muskoxen; french: île d'Ellesmere) is Canada's northernmost and List of Canadian islands by area, third largest island, and the List of islands by area, tenth largest in the world. It comprises an area of , slightly smaller than Great Britain, and the total length of the island is . Lying within the Arctic Archipelago, Ellesmere Island is considered part of the Queen Elizabeth Islands. Cape Columbia at 83°06′ is the northernmost point of land in Canada and one of the northernmost points of land on the planet (the northernmost point of land on Earth is the nearby Kaffeklubben Island of Greenland). The Arctic Cordillera mountain system covers much of Ellesmere Island, making it the most mountainous in the Arctic Archipelago. More than one-fifth of the island is protected as Quttinirpaaq National Park. In 2021, the population of Ellesmere Island was recorded at 144. There are three settlements: Alert, Nunavut, Aler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caledonian Orogeny
The Caledonian orogeny was a mountain-building era recorded in the northern parts of the British Isles, the Scandinavian Mountains, Svalbard, eastern Greenland and parts of north-central Europe. The Caledonian orogeny encompasses events that occurred from the Ordovician to Early Devonian, roughly 490–390 million years ago ( Ma). It was caused by the closure of the Iapetus Ocean when the continents and terranes of Laurentia, Baltica and Avalonia collided. The orogeny is named for Caledonia, the Latin name for Scotland. The term was first used in 1885 by Austrian geologist Eduard Suess for an episode of mountain building in northern Europe that predated the Devonian period. Geologists like Émile Haug and Hans Stille saw the Caledonian event as one of several episodic phases of mountain building that had occurred during Earth's history. Current understanding has it that the Caledonian orogeny encompasses a number of tectonic phases that can laterally be diachronous. The n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wandel Sea
The Wandel Sea ( da, Wandelhavet; also known as McKinley Sea) is a body of water in the Arctic Ocean, stretching from northeast of Greenland to Svalbard. It is obstructed by ice most of the year. This sea is named after Danish polar explorer and hydrographer, Vice Admiral Carl Frederick Wandel, who in the years 1895–96 explored the coastal waters of Greenland as part of the Danish Ingolf Expedition. Geography This arctic sea is located at 82° north longitude and 21° west latitude. Seas farther north and northwest of the Wandel Sea were once frozen year-round but now may have open water in late summer, as of August 2018.ftp://ftp-projects.cen.uni-hamburg.de/seaice/AMSR2/3.125km/ The Wandel Sea stretches westward as far as Cape Morris Jesup. Further west is the Lincoln Sea. In the south, it stretches to Nordostrundingen. The Wandel Sea connects to the Greenland Sea in the south through the Fram Strait. Independence Fjord and Frederick E. Hyde Fjord are two great fjords of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daly Range
The Daly Range or Daly Mountains ( da, Daly Bjerge) is a mountain range in Peary Land, Northern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. It forms the eastern end of the northernmost mountain range on Earth.2002 American Alpine Journal, p.286 The area of the range is barren and uninhabited. History The mountain chain was named by Robert Peary after Judge Charles P. Daly, President of the American Geographical Society and member of the executive committee of the Peary Arctic Club in New York. In 1900 Peary saw the range from the coast and was the first to put it on the map. The Daly Range was further surveyed in 1907 by Johan Peter Koch, Aage Bertelsen and Tobias Gabrielsen, the northern team of the ill-fated Denmark expedition, when they reached their northernmost point, Cape Bridgman. G. Amdrup: Report on the Danmark Expedition to the North-East Coast of Greenland 1906–1908'. In: ''Meddelelser om Grønland'' 41, 1913, pp. 1–270 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Peary Peaks
The Mary Peary Peaks ( da, Mary Peary Tinder) are a mountain in the Roosevelt Range, Peary Land, Northern Greenland. Administratively they belong to the Northeast Greenland National Park. The peaks were named by Robert Peary after his mother, Mary Peary (1827 – 1900). Peary saw the mountain from a distance, in the vicinity of Constable Bay, as he traveled along the shore. He marked it in his map but did not go inland to explore the features of the range. Geography The Mary Peary Peaks are located in the middle sector of the Roosevelt Range east of the Polar Corridor in a roughly central position to the west of the western end of the H. H. Benedict Range.Google Maps The maximum height is . According to the A-5 sheet of the Defense Mapping Agency Navigation chart it is a summit. The Sif Glacier originates in the ice cap In glaciology, an ice cap is a mass of ice that covers less than of land area (usually covering a highland area). Larger ice masses covering more t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes V
Johannes is a Medieval Latin form of the personal name that usually appears as "John" in English language contexts. It is a variant of the Greek and Classical Latin variants (Ιωάννης, ''Ioannes''), itself derived from the Hebrew name '' Yehochanan'', meaning "Yahweh is gracious". The name became popular in Northern Europe, especially in Germany because of Christianity. Common German variants for Johannes are ''Johann'', ''Hannes'', '' Hans'' (diminutized to ''Hänschen'' or ''Hänsel'', as known from "''Hansel and Gretel''", a fairy tale by the Grimm brothers), '' Jens'' (from Danish) and ''Jan'' (from Dutch, and found in many countries). In the Netherlands, Johannes was without interruption the most common masculine birth name until 1989. The English equivalent for Johannes is John. In other languages *Joan, Jan, Gjon, Gjin and Gjovalin in Albanian *'' Yoe'' or '' Yohe'', uncommon American form''Dictionary of American Family Names'', Oxford University Press, 2013. *Yaḥy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moore Glacier
Moore Glacier ( da, Moore Gletscher) is a glacier in northern Greenland. Google Earth Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park. Between 2006 and 2010 there was an automatic weather station in the glacier. The glacier was named by Robert Peary after Mr. Charles Moore, who convinced US President William McKinley to keep supporting Peary's Polar ventures in the face of the United States Department of the Navy opposing further explorations. Geography The Moore Glacier is the largest of the valley glaciers located in the area of the easternmost subranges of the Roosevelt Range. It flows roughly in a northwestern direction from the southeast and stretches between the H. H. Benedict Range to the southwest and the Bertelsen Glacier to the northeast. The Moore Glacier has its terminus at the head of the southeastern shore of Bliss Bay, which is permanently clogged with ice. The Stjernebannertinde, highest peak of the H. H. Benedict Range, rises above the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borup Glacier
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Frederick E
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