Halle Range
Halle Range | |
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Hallebjergene | |
Map of Clavering Island (Eskimonaes) and neighbouring areas | |
Highest point | |
Peak | Bramsen Bjerg |
Elevation | 1,272 m (4,173 ft) |
Dimensions | |
Length | 20 km (12 mi) NW/SE |
Width | 15 km (9.3 mi) NE/SW |
Area | 300 km² |
Geography | |
Location | |
Country | Greenland |
Range coordinates | 74°14′N 21°45′W / 74.23°N 21.75°WCoordinates: 74°14′N 21°45′W / 74.23°N 21.75°W |
Geology | |
Age of rock | Upper Carboniferous[1] |
The Halle Range or Halle Mountains (Danish: Hallebjergene)[2] is a mountain range in Clavering Island, King Christian X Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.
The range was named by Lauge Koch during his 1929–30 expedition after Thore Gustav Halle (1884–1964), a professor at the University of Stockholm who had worked on the plant samples brought by the expedition. Formerly it had been also known as Joh. H. Andresenfjellet.[3]
Geography
The Halle Range is an up to 1200 m high little glaciated mountain massif located in the southwest part of Clavering Island (Clavering Ø). Its average elevation is 912 m and the highest point of the range is 1272 m high Bramsen Bjerg. The Vildbækdalen is a valley in the heart of the range. The area of the Halle mountains is uninhabited.[4]
Mountains
- Bramsen Bjerg
- Brinkley Bjerg
- Dunken
- Eiger
- Forposten
- Gedderyggen
- Hjertet
- Højnålen
- Kisbjerg
- Langelinie
- Moltke Bjerg
- Monucleus
- Ortlerspids
- Pladen
- Skårene
- Steinmannspids
- Trinucleus
- Vestmar Bjerg
- Vesttinden
- Østtinden
See also
References
- ↑ Druid Wilson,Geologic Names of North America, Parts 1-2, p. 610
- ↑ "Hallebjergene". Mapcarta. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
- ↑ "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland" (PDF). Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
- ↑ Google Earth