Alabama Nunatak is a nunatak in the

King Frederick VIII Land King Frederick VIII Land ( da, Kong Frederik VIII Land) is a major geographic division of northeastern Greenland. It extends above the Arctic Circle from 76°N to 81°N in a N/S direction along the coast of the Greenland Sea. History This va ...

area of northeastern

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 i ...

. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.

History

This nunatak was named by

Ejnar Mikkelsen Ejnar Mikkelsen (December 23, 1880 – May 1, 1971) was a Danish polar explorer and author. He is most known for his expeditions to Greenland. Biography Mikkelsen was born in Vester Brønderslev, Jutland. He served in the Georg Carl Amdrup exp ...

after his ship during the 1909-12 Alabama Expedition.''Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland'', Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Mikkelsen and Iver Iversen went up the Storstrommen to reach the head of the Danmark Fjord, leaving this nunatak on the left in their arduous

dogsled A dog sled or dog sleigh is a sled pulled by one or more sled dogs used to travel over ice and through snow. Numerous types of sleds are used, depending on their function. They can be used for dog sled racing. Traditionally in Greenland and the ...

journey over the ice. Few details are known about the circumstances of sighting and mapping of this nunatak, for Mikkelsen's diary, which had been kept in a cache at a rocky islet in

Skaer Fjord Skaer Fjord, ( da, Skærfjorden, meaning "Reef Fjord") is a fjord in King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. History Skaerfjorden was named by the 1906-1908 Denmark expedition, which named it thus owing to the numerous reefs and skerr ...

, was destroyed by a polar bear.GREENLAND - Full Text
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Geography

The Alabama Nunatak is located just north of the Ymer Nunatak, the northernmost spur of the

Queen Louise Land Queen Louise Land ( da, Dronning Louise Land; kl, Nuna Dronning Louise) is a vast mountainous region located west of Dove Bay, King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National P ...

group, and south of the Bildsoe Nunatak. It rises at the SW end of Duke of Orleans Land, west of the area where the Storstrommen begins to flow southwards.

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Mountains of Greenland Nunataks of Greenland {{Greenland-geo-stub

History

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