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Margaretatop

Mountain in eastern Greenland From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Margaretatop is a mountain in eastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.[2]

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History

At the time of Lauge Koch's 1949–51 expeditions this summit was named after Margareta Hediger by American geologist John Haller,[1] a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.[3]

The peak is marked as "Margaretatopp"[4] and "Margarita Spids" in some maps.[1] Margaretasø is a small lake in neighboring Rendal at 73°25.5′N 26°39.0′W where the reflection of the mountain can be seen on its surface. This lake was named by John Haller after the same person.[1]

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Geography

Margaretatop is the highest point of Andrée Land.

It is a roughly 2,360 m (7,740 ft) high peak that rises in the southwestern part of Andrée Land, east of the Rendal valley and northeast of the shore of the Isfjord, a northern branch of Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord.[5] This mountain is marked as a 7,743-foot-high (2,360 m) peak in the Defense Mapping Agency Greenland Navigation charts.[citation needed]

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