Stjernebannertinde

Stjernebannertinde (Starry Banner Peak) is the highest mountain in the H. H. Benedict Range, a subrange of the Roosevelt Range, Northern Greenland.^[2]

Stjernebannertinde
Satellite image of the northern end of Greenland
Highest point
Elevation	1,424 m (4,672 ft)[1]
Prominence	647 m (2,123 ft)[1]
Listing	List of mountains in Greenland
Coordinates	83°22′52″N 28°28′41″W[1]
Geography
Stjernebannertinde Peary Land, Greenland
Parent range	H. H. Benedict Range Roosevelt Range
Climbing
First ascent	1996[2]

The peak was first climbed in 1996 by the members of the American Top of the World Expedition (ATOW). It was one of the two main objectives of the expedition members in the northern part of Peary Land.^[2]

Geography

Rising above the western flank of the Moore Glacier, the 1,424 m (4,672 ft)^[1] high Stjernebannertinde is the highest point of the H. H. Benedict Range, an eastern prolongation of the Roosevelt Range located in the eastern section of North Peary Land. The same mountain is marked as a 4,701-foot-high (1,433 m) peak in the A-5 sheet of the Defense Mapping Agency Navigation charts.^[3]

Administratively the Stjernebannertinde belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park.

See also

• List of mountains in Greenland
• ATOW1996