The Lindbergh Range or Lindbergh Nunataks ( da, Lindbergh Fjelde or ''Lindbergh Nunatakker'') is a

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, eastern

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. Administratively the range is part of the

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Municipality.

History

The range was observed and mapped in 1933 by

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during aerial surveys made in the course of the 1931–34 Three-year Expedition to East Greenland. Koch named it after pioneering aviator Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902–1974), who reportedly had seen these tall nunataks previously during an eastward flight across the Greenland Ice Sheet and had discussed the matter with him when they met in

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. Although not as high as the Watkins Range to the east, the Lindbergh Range is popular among

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s because it has some of the finest and tallest peaks in Greenland. The quality of the rock, however, is poor. A number of the main summits of the nunataks have been climbed in recent years, but the range is still relatively little explored.Alpine Journal - North America, Greenland, Northeast, Lindbergh Fjelde
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Geography

The Lindbergh Range is an up to 3,171 m high cluster of nunataks, some of which are extensive ridges rising above the ice. It is located west of the Christian IV Glacier and east of the Upper Frederiksborg Glacier ''(Øvre Frederiksborg Gletscher)'', an ice cap west of which lie the Frederiksborg Nunataks, located north of the

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. The Isfald Glacier is a smaller glacier located at the southern end. The vast Greenland Ice Sheet lies to the northwest. The Watkins Range rises to the east of the Lindbergh Range, beyond the Christian IV Glacier, the

Gronau Nunataks The Gronau Nunataks ( da, Gronau Nunatakker) is a mountain range in King Christian IX Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Sermersooq Municipality. History This group of nunataks at the edge of the vast Greenland ...

lie to the northeast, and the

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to the southwest. The area of the range is uninhabited. Google Earth

Mountains

* Snebordet (3,160 m); highest peak of the range at * Trillingerne, a small group of nunataks in the SW, all with high summits; highest peak 3,020 m. * Jætteborg (2,919 m); in the same ridge as Snebordet, but further to the south

Climate

Polar climate prevails in the region. The average annual temperature in the area of the Lindbergh Range is -17 °C. The warmest month is July when the average temperature reaches -5 °C and the coldest is February when the temperature sinks to -19 °C.

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