Actress (Greenland)

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Actress
Highest point
Elevation 2,514 m (8,248 ft)  [1]
Coordinates 68°35′22″N31°50′23″W / 68.58944°N 31.83972°W / 68.58944; -31.83972 Coordinates: 68°35′22″N31°50′23″W / 68.58944°N 31.83972°W / 68.58944; -31.83972   [1]
Geography
Location Sermersooq, Greenland
Parent range Lemon Range
Climbing
First ascent 1990s [2]

Actress is the highest mountain in the Lemon Range, Sermersooq municipality, eastern Greenland. [1]

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Lemon Range

The Lemon Range or Lemon Mountains is a mountain range in King Christian IX Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Sermersooq Municipality.

Sermersooq Municipality of Greenland

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It was climbed in the 1990s by Tom Chamberlain. [2]

Geography

This 2,514 m (8,248 ft) high peak rises at the northern end of the Lemon Range, rising steeply just west of the Frederiksborg Glacier. [1] It is a rocky peak with a vertical icy crevice running along its southern face. This mountain is marked as an 8,726-foot-high (2,660 m) peak in the Defense Mapping Agency Greenland Navigation charts. [3]

Frederiksborg Glacier

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Although it is the highest summit of the range, Actress is located inland and is not as conspicuous as the spectacular peak cluster of the Domkirkebjerget with its 2,458 m (8,064 ft) high "Cathedral". The latter is located further south in a more accessible area [4] [5] and "Cathedral" was formerly confused with Actress, the true highest point of the Lemon Range. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Google Earth
  2. 1 2 Alpine Journal - Bishops, Actresses and Witches
  3. ↑ 1:1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart, Sheet C-13
  4. ↑ "Domkirkebjerget". Mapcarta. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  5. ↑ "North America, Greenland, Cathedral Peak Attempt, Lemon Bjerge, East Greenland". AAC Publications. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  6. ↑ American Alpine Club - North America, Greenland, Peaks in the Lindberg Bjerge; Cathedral and Other Peaks in the Lemon Bjerge


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