The Mary Peary Peaks ( da, Mary Peary Tinder) are a

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in 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 ...

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 they belong to 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 peaks were 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 his mother, Mary Peary (1827 – 1900). Peary saw the mountain from a distance, in the vicinity of

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, as he traveled along the shore. He marked it in his map but did not go inland to explore the features of the range.Manliness and Exploration: The Discovery of the North Pole
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Geography

The Mary Peary Peaks are located in the middle sector of the

east of the

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in a roughly central position to the west of the western end of the

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 pa ...

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The maximum height is . According to the A-5 sheet of the

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Navigation chart it is a summit.1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart; Sheet A-5
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Sif Glacier Sif Glacier ( da, Sifs Gletscher), is a glacier in northern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park. History The Sif Glacier was seen during aerial surveys by Lauge Koch and was named after Sif, the goddess ...

originates in the

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of the Mary Peary Peaks. It flows in a WSW/ENE direction bifurcating south of the

Birgit Koch Peaks Birgit is a female given name, a short form of Birgitta and ultimately a Germanic form of the Gaelic name Bridget. Notable people with the name include: * Birgit Brüel, Danish singer and actress * Birgit Collin-Langen, German politician * Bir ...

with one arm flowing roughly northwards and another southwards.Arctic Report, 121
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References

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The women in Peary's life, part 1 mother” - TaissumaniNorth America, Greenland, Roosevelt Range, J.V. Jensen Land, Avanarsuasua, Exploration
Mountains of Greenland Roosevelt Range

Geography

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