Faraway How

Faraway How
Faraway How King Christian X Land, Greenland
Highest point
Elevation	1,398 m (4,587 ft) [1]
Coordinates	74°25′N23°33′W / 74.417°N 23.550°W / 74.417; -23.550 [2]
Geography
Location	King Christian X Land, Greenland
Climbing
First ascent	Unknown

Faraway How is a nunatak in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it falls under the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.

This geographic feature was named by the 1926 Cambridge Expedition to East Greenland led by Sir James Wordie. ^[3]

Geography

Faraway How is located in the Wordie Glacier north of Steno Land and 9 km to the west of C. H. Ostenfeld Nunatak's northern end. ^[2]

Faraway How is 7.8 km in length and its maximum width is 3.2 km; the highest elevation is located at the western end and is 1,398 metres (4,587 ft) high. ^[1]

1932 map section showing Faraway How and the Wordie Glacier on the left.

Detailed map of the area.

See also

• List of mountains in Greenland
• List of nunataks of Greenland

Bibliography

• Wordie, J. M.; Manley, G.; White, P. F.; Johnson, D. McI. (1927). "The Cambridge Expedition to East Greenland in 1926". The Geographical Journal. 70 (3): 225–265. doi:10.2307/1781943. JSTOR   1781943.

References

1. GoogleEarth
2. "Faraway How". Mapcarta. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
3. "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 8 July 2016.^{[ permanent dead link ‍]}