The H. H. Benedict Range or H. H. Benedict Mountains ( da, H. H. Benedict Bjerge) is a

mountain range A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arise ...

Peary Land Peary Land is a peninsula in northern Greenland, extending into the Arctic Ocean. It reaches from Victoria Fjord in the west to Independence Fjord in the south and southeast, and to the Arctic Ocean in the north, with Cape Morris Jesup, the north ...

, Northern

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. Administratively this range is part of the

Northeast Greenland National Park Northeast Greenland National Park ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaanni nuna eqqissisimatitaq, da, Grønlands Nationalpark) is the world's largest national park and the 10th List of largest protected areas in the world, largest protected area (the only large ...

. 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 Robert Edwin Peary Sr. (; May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) was an American explorer and officer in the United States Navy who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for, in Apri ...

after Henry H. Benedict (1844–1935), one of the founding members of the

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.How Did Frederick E. Hyde Fjord Get Its Name?
/ref> 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 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 Pet ...

in the 1920s mapped the area and Danish surveyors named some features. Only in 1996 did an expedition climb the highest point of the range.North America, Greenland, The Far North, Jensenland, Explorations of Most Northerly Land
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Geography

The H. H. Benedict Range is a subrange of the

Roosevelt Range The Roosevelt Range or Roosevelt Mountains ( da, Roosevelt Fjelde) is a mountain range in Northern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. Its highest peak is the highest point in Peary Land. Locat ...

. Its highest peak is high

Stjernebannertinde Stjernebannertinde (Starry Banner Peak) is the highest mountain in the H. H. Benedict Range, a subrange of the Roosevelt Range, Northern Greenland. The peak was first climbed in 1996 by the members of the American Top of the World Expedition (A ...

, a conspicuous summit. The range is located in Northern Peary Land, stretching north of the

Frederick E. Hyde Fjord Frederick E. Hyde Fjord is a fjord in Peary Land, far northern Greenland. History The fjord was named by Robert Peary during his 1900 expedition after Frederick Erastus Hyde, one of the founding members and first vice-president of the Peary Arct ...

. The valleys between the mountains are filled with glaciers, the largest of which are the

Borup Glacier Borup or Børup may refer to: ;Places * Borup, Minnesota, U.S.A. * Borup, Køge Municipality, Denmark, a parish and railway town * Borup, Randers Municipality, Denmark, a parish and small village in Randers Municipality * Borup Fiord, Canada * ...

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 ...

and Ydun Glacier. The H. H. Benedict Range runs roughly from east to west in Johannes V. Jensen Land east of the

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, ...

. The

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 o ...

''(Daly Bjerge)'' rises to the east, between the eastern end of the H. H. Benedict Range and the

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 an ...

Geology

In the same manner as the Roosevelt Range the H. H. Benedict Range is part of the

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 occ ...

extending eastward from north

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. ...

.Crossing North Peary Land in Summer 1953
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Glacial erratics on the Arctic Ocean margin of North Greenland: implications for an extensive ice-shelfUKH / Peary Land Greenland
Roosevelt Range

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