Lindbergh Range

The Lindbergh Range or Lindbergh Nunataks (Danish: Lindbergh Fjelde or Lindbergh Nunatakker)[1] is a mountain range in King Christian IX Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively the range is part of the Sermersooq Municipality.

Lindbergh Range
Lindbergh Fjelde
Defense Mapping Agency map of Greenland sheet showing on the right the area of the range.
Highest point
PeakSnebordet
Elevation3,171 m (10,404 ft)
Dimensions
Length60 km (37 mi) NE/SW
Width30 km (19 mi) NW/SE
Area1,500 km2 (580 sq mi)
Geography
Location
CountryGreenland
Range coordinates69°0′N 30°55′W

History

The range was observed and mapped in 1933 by Lauge Koch 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 Ella Island.[2]

Although not as high as the Watkins Range to the east, the Lindbergh Range is popular among mountaineers 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.[3]

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 Frederiksborg Glacier. 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 lie to the northeast, and the Lemon Range to the southwest. The area of the range is uninhabited.[4][5]

Mountains
  • Snebordet (3,160 m); highest peak of the range at 68°57′33″N 30°50′32″W[5]
  • 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[5]

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.[6]

See also

References
  1. "Lindbergh Fjelde". Mapcarta. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  2. "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  3. Alpine Journal - North America, Greenland, Northeast, Lindbergh Fjelde
  4. "Øvre Frederiksborg Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  5. Google Earth
  6. "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. Retrieved 30 January 2016.


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