Actress is the highest
mountain
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in the
Lemon Range
The Lemon Range or Lemon Mountains ( da, Lemon Bjerge) is a mountain range in King Christian IX Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Sermersooq Municipality.
History
The range was named by Gino Watkins after Captai ...
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Sermersooq
Sermersooq (, da, sted med meget is, lit=place of much ice) is a municipality in Greenland, formed on 1 January 2009 from five earlier, smaller municipalities. Its administrative seat is the city of Nuuk (formerly called Godthåb), the capital ...
municipality, eastern
Greenland
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It was climbed in the 1990s by Tom Chamberlain.
Geography
This high peak rises at the northern end of the Lemon Range, rising steeply just west of the
Frederiksborg Glacier
Frederiksborg Glacier ( da, Frederiksborg Gletscher) is a glacier on the east coast of the Greenland ice sheet. It is named after Frederiksborg Castle in Denmark.
Administratively this glacier is part of the Sermersooq Municipality.Google Earth
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It is a rocky peak with a vertical icy crevice running along its southern face. This mountain is marked as an peak in the
Defense Mapping Agency
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Greenland Navigation charts.
Although it is the highest summit of the range, Actress is located inland and is not as conspicuous as the spectacular peak cluster of the
Domkirkebjerget with its high "Cathedral". The latter is located further south in a more accessible area
and "Cathedral" was formerly confused with Actress, the true highest point of the Lemon Range.
American Alpine Club - North America, Greenland, Peaks in the Lindberg Bjerge; Cathedral and Other Peaks in the Lemon Bjerge
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See also
*List of mountains in Greenland
This is a list of mountains in Greenland.
List
For each mountain, the municipality in which it is located is given, along with coordinates indicating the approximate centre of the mountain (follow the link to see satellite images of the location ...
References
External links
American Alpine Club - Exploring Greenland's Lemon BjergeAlpine Journal - The Lemon Mountains of East Greenland
Actress
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Sermersooq
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