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List Of Mountain Ranges Of Greenland
This is a list of mountain ranges of Greenland. List by alphabetical order *Alángup Qáqai, located in SW Disko Island *Albert Heim Range ''(Albert Heim Bjerge)'', located in northern Hudson Land, north of Promenadedal. *Alexandrine Range ''(Alexandrine Bjerge)'', rising above the southeastern shore of Denmark Fjord. *Amitsorssûp Qulâ, located south of the Ameralik Fjord in West Greenland. *Barth Range ''(Barth Bjerge)'', located in Queen Margrethe II Land. *Borgtinderne, a long nunatak with multiple peaks east of the Ejnar Mikkelsen Range. Highest peak Borgetinde. *Brages Range ''(Brages Bjerge)'', located at the western end of Odinland in a nunatak between the Fimbul Glacier, Fimbul and Sleipner Glacier, Sleipner glaciers at the head of the Bernstorff Fjord. *Crown Prince Frederick Range ''(Kronprins Frederik Bjerge)'', very long range of nunataks stretching southwest of Kangerlussuaq Fjord, East Greenland. *Daly Range ''(Daly Bjerge)'', a subrange of the Roosevelt Range ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenland Ice Cap
The Greenland ice sheet ( da, Grønlands indlandsis, kl, Sermersuaq) is a vast body of ice covering , roughly near 80% of the surface of Greenland. It is sometimes referred to as an ice cap, or under the term ''inland ice'', or its Danish equivalent, ''indlandsis''. An acronym, GIS, is frequently used in the scientific literature. It is the second largest ice body in the world, after the Antarctic ice sheet. The ice sheet is almost long in a north–south direction, and its greatest width is at a latitude of 77°N, near its northern margin. The average thickness is about and over at its thickest point. In addition to the large ice sheet, smaller ice caps (such as Maniitsoq and Flade Isblink) as well as glaciers, cover between around the periphery. The Greenland ice sheet is adversely affected by climate change. It is more vulnerable to climate change than the Antarctic ice sheet because of its position in the Arctic, where it is subject to the regional amplification ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nunatak
A nunatak (from Inuit language, Inuit ''nunataq'') is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge. They are also called glacial islands. Examples are natural pyramidal peaks. When rounded by glacial action, smaller rock promontories may be referred to as rognons. The word is of Greenlandic language, Greenlandic origin and has been used in English since the 1870s. Description The term is typically used in areas where a permanent ice sheet is present and the nunataks protrude above the sheet.J. J. Zeeberg, ''Climate and Glacial History of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, Russian Arctic''. pp. 82–84 Nunataks present readily identifiable landmark reference points in glaciers or ice caps and are often named. While some nunataks are isolated, sometimes they form dense clusters, such as Queen Louise Land in Greenland. Nunataks are generally angular and jagged, which hampers the formation of glacial i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Didrik Pining Range
Diderik or Didrik is a Norwegian male given name. In North Germanic languages, the native form would be ''Tjodrik'', but ''Diderik'' and ''Didrik'' have been loaned from Low German and are now a common name in Norway. It may also be a variant of the related Dutch name Diederik. People with the name include: *Diderik Batens (born 1944), Belgian logician and epistemologist at the University of Ghent *Diderik Bøgvad (1792–1857), Norwegian politician *Diderik von Cappelen (1761–1828), Norwegian merchant and politician *Diderik Hegermann Rye (1832–1914), Norwegian civil servant *Diderik Hegermann (1763–1835), Norwegian councillor of state and Minister of the Army *Diderik Schnitler (born 1946), Norwegian businessperson *Diderik Iversen Tønseth (1818–1893), Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party * Diderik Wagenaar (born 1946), Dutch composer and musical theorist *Didrik Pining Didrik Pining ( 1430 – 1491) was a German privateer, nobleman and governor of Iceland and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Park zone. The highest point of Queen Louise Land is Gefiontinde, with a height of , the highest of the Gefiontinder group of peaks located at .Google Earth Geologically Queen Louise Land is made up of orthogneiss overlain by sedimentary rocks. History This remote area was named ''Dronning Louises Land'' after Queen Louise of Denmark (1851–1926), wife of King Frederick VIII of Denmark, by the ill-fated 1906–08 Denmark Expedition —the expedition that aimed to map one of the last unknown parts of Greenland. Danish Arctic explorer Alf Trolle claimed that this area had been originally named as ''Den Store Nanuták'' —The Big Nunatak. Queen Louise Land was subsequently visited by the 1912–13 Danish Expedition to Queen Louise L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dannebrog Range
Dannebrog (until the mid-20th century often spelled Danebrog) may refer to: Flags and orders * The national Flag of Denmark * Order of the Dannebrog ( da, Dannebrogordenen, links=no), a Royal Danish decoration Places * Dannebrog Island, an island in Greenland * Dannebrog Islands, an island group in Antarctica * Dannebrog, Nebraska, a village in Nebraska, United States Ships * Danish ironclad ''Dannebrog'', a frigate of the Royal Danish Navy, also known as the HDMS ''Dannebrog'' (1850) * HDMS ''Dannebroge'' (1692) (The name is spelled Dannebrog in some references) * HDMY ''Dannebrog'' (1879), the first royal Danish side-wheel paddle steam-yacht, named after the flag * HDMY ''Dannebrog'' (A540), a Danish royal yacht, named after the flag {{disambiguation, geo, ship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 northernmost point of Greenland's mainland, and Cape Bridgman in the northeast. History Ancient settlements Peary Land was historically inhabited by three separate cultures, during which times the climate was milder than presently: *Independence I culture, Paleo-Eskimo (around 2000 BC, oldest remains dating from 2400 BC) *Independence II culture, Paleo-Eskimo (800 BC to 200 BC) *Thule culture (ancestral to the modern Inuit, around AD 1300) Peary's explorations The area is named after Robert E. Peary, who first explored it during his expedition of 1891 to 1892. Originally, Peary Land was believed to be an island, separated from the main island by the so-called Peary Channel, an assumed connection between Nordenskiöld Fjord and Indepen ... [...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. 1–2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kangerlussuaq Fjord, East Greenland
Kangerlussuaq Fjord ( kl, Kangerlussuaq, meaning 'large fjord'; da, Stor Fjord) is a fjord in eastern Greenland. It is part of the Sermersooq municipality. The fjord was named by the East-Greenland Coast Expedition led by Georg Carl Amdrup in 1900. Currently drilling explorations are being carried out for the possible exploitation of gold, palladium and platinum in the Kangerlussuaq area.Project Update and Activities' (PDF; 1,9 MB), Platina Resources Ltd., 26. Februar 2014 (englisch) History The eastern coast of Greenland was inhabited by Paleo-Eskimo people 4000 years ago and the Kangerlussuaq Fjord was likely visited by hunters. A quartz hand scraper found in Cape Irminger —24 km east of Cape Hammer— proves that the region was visited at least 2000 years ago.Christian Glahder: ''Hunting in Kangerlussuaq, East Greenland, 1951–1991. An Assessment of Local Knowledge'' (= ''Meddelelser om Grønland, Man & Society'', Nr. 19, 1995)p. 12/ref> Inuit lived in the ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crown Prince Frederick Range
The Crown Prince Frederick Range ( da, Kronprins Frederik Bjerge) is a large mountain range in King Christian IX Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Sermersooq Municipality. Despite being relatively unknown it has some of the highest summits in Greenland. History The Crown Prince Frederick Range was first surveyed by Sir Martin Lindsay in 1934 during the British Trans-Greenland Expedition and was named after the Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark (1899 – 1972) who would be crowned King Frederick IX in 1947. The expedition crossed Greenland from west to east, and succeeded in fixing the positions of many other important features further to the northeast, including Gunnbjørnsfjeld —the highest point in Greenland. On the return journey the team headed south-west to Amassalik and on their journey discovered the extent of the Crown Prince Frederick Range. Lindsay's expedition set a new world record after travelling on sleds, 700 of which were t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernstorff Fjord
Bernstorff Fjord ( da, Bernstorff Isfjord; kl, Kangertittivaq) is a fjord in King Frederick VI Coast, eastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Sermersooq municipality. The fjord was named after Danish statesman Andreas Peter Bernstorff. This fjord is almost always blocked by heavy ice. History One of the coastal islands, Igdluluarssuk (Sattiaatteq) at the entrance of the fjord on its southern side, had had the northernmost Inuit settlement of the southern group on the east coast in the recent past. Arctic explorer Wilhelm August Graah of the Danish Navy explored this area in 1828–30, during an expedition in search of the legendary Eastern Norse Settlement. Geography To the east the Bernstorff Fjord opens into the Irminger Sea (North Atlantic Ocean). It separates the Odinland Peninsula with its SE end, Cape Møsting to the north,''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 102 from the Thorland Peninsula and Cape Moltke to the sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sleipner Glacier
Sleipner Glacier ( da, Sleipner Gletscher), is a glacier in eastern 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 .... This glacier was named after Sleipnir, Sleipner, Odin's mythical eight-legged flying horse. Geography The Sleipner Glacier originates in central Odinland, a heavily glaciated peninsula. It flows westward just west of Ensom Majestaet ('Lonely Majesty'), Odinland's highest point. The glacier is roughly east–west oriented and joins the left side of the Fimbul Glacier just north of its terminus in the Bernstorff Fjord (Kangertittivaq).GoogleEarth Together the Sleipner and Fimbul glaciers produce massive amounts of ice that blocks the fjord.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 102 Bibliography''Climate-related glacier fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fimbul Glacier
Fimbul Glacier ( da, Fimbulgletscher), is a glacier in eastern Greenland. This glacier was named after an Old Norse word for "giant" or "mighty". Geography The Fimbul Glacier originates in western Odinland, a glaciated peninsula. It flows southward from the area of the Ensomme Skraent ('Lonely Slope'), and joins the Sleipner Glacier from its left side just north of its terminus in the Bernstorff Fjord (Kangertittivaq) and west of the Brages Range. GoogleEarth Alfheimbjerg is a mountain further south, rising between the western side of the Fimbul Glacier terminus and the terminus of the Bernstorff Glacier Bernstorff Glacier ( da, Bernstorff Gletscher, also referred to as ''A.P. Bernstorf Gletscher''), is a glacier in the King Frederick VI Coast, Sermersooq, southeastern Greenland. Like the fjord, this glacier was named after Danish statesman Andr ... . Together the Sleipner and Fimbul glaciers produce massive amounts of ice that blocks the fjord.''Prostar Sailing Direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
