C. H. Ostenfeld Nunatak

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C. H. Ostenfeld Nunatak
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C. H. Ostenfeld Nunatak
Highest point
Elevation 1,019 m (3,343 ft)  [1]
Coordinates 74°17′N22°56′W / 74.283°N 22.933°W / 74.283; -22.933 Coordinates: 74°17′N22°56′W / 74.283°N 22.933°W / 74.283; -22.933   [2]
Geography
Location King Christian X Land, Greenland
Climbing
First ascent Unknown

C. H. Ostenfeld Nunatak is a nunatak in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it falls under the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.

Nunatak Exposed, often rocky element of a ridge, mountain, or peak not covered with ice or snow within an ice field or glacier

A nunatak is an exposed, often rocky element of a ridge, mountain, or peak not covered with ice or snow within an ice field or glacier. They are also called glacial islands. Examples are natural pyramidal peaks. When rounded by glacial action, smaller rock promontories may be referred to as rognons.

King Christian X Land Region in Greenland

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Greenland autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark

Greenland is an autonomous constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe for more than a millennium. The majority of its residents are Inuit, whose ancestors began migrating from the Canadian mainland in the 13th century, gradually settling across the island.

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This geographic feature was named by Lauge Koch during his 1929–30 expeditions after Danish botanist Christian Emil Hansen Ostenfeld (1873–1931), author of ‘Flora of Greenland and its origin’. [3]

Lauge Koch Danish geologist

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Geography

It is a relatively large nunatak located east of Stenoland between the Wordie Glacier and the Granta Glacier. Its northern end lies 9 km to the east of Faraway How's eastern point. [2]

Wordie Glacier glacier in Greenland

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Faraway How

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C. H. Ostenfeld Nunatak is 15.7 km in length and its maximum width is 6.4 km; the highest elevation is located at the western end and is 1,019 metres (3,343 ft) high. [1]

1932 map section showing C. H. Ostenfeld Nunatak and the Wordie Glacier on the left. Clavering 1932.tif
1932 map section showing C. H. Ostenfeld Nunatak and the Wordie Glacier on the left.
Detailed map of the area. Eskimonaes C501 map sheet.tif
Detailed map of the area.

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References

  1. 1 2 GoogleEarth
  2. 1 2 "C. H. Ostenfeld Nunatak". Mapcarta. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  3. ↑ "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 8 July 2016.[ permanent dead link ]
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