Gefiontinde

Gefiontinde (Gefion Peak) is the highest mountain in Queen Louise Land (Danish: Dronning Louise Land), NE Greenland. The peak is located in the King Frederick VIII Land area of northeastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.

Gefiontinde
Queen Louise Land and neighbouring areas
Highest point
Elevation2,364 m (7,756 ft) [1]
Coordinates76°28′8″N 25°38′31″W [1]
Geography

This peak was named after Gefion, the virgin sister of Danish deities who is said to have ploughed the whole Danish island of Zealand (Sjælland) in one night.[2]

Geography

Gefiontinde is the highest peak in a group of peaks named Gefions Tinder or Gefiontinder at the southwestern end of Queen Louise Land, between Pony Glacier and Budolfi Isstrøm.[3] The nunatak group was named Gefions Tinder or Gefiontinder by the 1912–13 Danish Expedition to Queen Louise Land and Across the North Greenland Ice Sheet led by J.P. Koch.[2]

Gefiontinde is a 2,364.3-metre-high (7,757 ft) peak.[1] This mountain is marked as a 8,799-foot-high (2,682 m) peak in the Defense Mapping Agency Greenland Navigation charts.[4]

Defense Mapping Agency map of Northeastern Greenland.

See also

References
  1. Google Earth
  2. Higgins, Anthony K. (2010-12-21), "Exploration history and place names of northern East Greenland" (PDF), Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin, Copenhagen, Denmark: Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), 21: 1–368, ISSN 1604-8156, retrieved 2019-12-01
  3. GEUS Map - Northern East Greenland; Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 21 Map 4 - 1:1 000 000
  4. 1:1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart, Sheet B-9
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