Halle Range
Mountain range in Greenland From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mountain range in Greenland From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Halle Range | |
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Hallebjergene | |
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 (120 sq mi) |
Geography | |
Country | Greenland |
Range coordinates | 74°14′N 21°45′W |
Geology | |
Age of rock | Upper Carboniferous[1] |
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]
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]
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