Lilloise Range

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Lilloise Range
Lilloise Bjerge
US Navy 040809-N-0331L-002 Recovery personnel examine the wreckage of a Navy P-2V Neptune aircraft that crashed over Greenland in 1962.jpg
Wreckage of a US Navy P-2V Neptune that crashed in the Kronborg Glacier with one of the peaks of the Lilloise Range rising in the distance.
Highest point
PeakLilloise Range High Point
Elevation 2,429 m (7,969 ft)
Dimensions
Length25 km (16 mi)N/S
Width10 km (6.2 mi)E/W
Geography
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Location
Country Greenland
Range coordinates 68°32′N28°45′W / 68.533°N 28.750°W / 68.533; -28.750 Coordinates: 68°32′N28°45′W / 68.533°N 28.750°W / 68.533; -28.750

The Lilloise Range or Lilloise Mountains (Danish : Lilloise Bjerge) [1] is a mountain range in King Christian IX Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Sermersooq Municipality.

Danish language North Germanic language spoken in Denmark

Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in Denmark and in the region of Southern Schleswig in northern Germany, where it has minority language status. Also, minor Danish-speaking communities are found in Norway, Sweden, Spain, the United States, Canada, Brazil, and Argentina. Due to immigration and language shift in urban areas, around 15–20% of the population of Greenland speak Danish as their first language.

Mountain range A geographic area containing several geologically related mountains

A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills ranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arisen from the same cause, usually an orogeny. Mountain ranges are formed by a variety of geological processes, but most of the significant ones on Earth are the result of plate tectonics. Mountain ranges are also found on many planetary mass objects in the Solar System and are likely a feature of most terrestrial planets.

King Christian IX Land Region in Greenland

King Christian IX Land is a coastal area of Southeastern Greenland in Sermersooq Municipality fronting the Denmark Strait and extending through the Arctic Circle from 65°N to 70°N.

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In petrology the Lilloise Intrusion is named after this range. [2]

Petrology The branch of geology that studies the origin, composition, distribution and structure of rocks

Petrology is the branch of geology that studies rocks and the conditions under which they form. Petrology has three subdivisions: igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary petrology. Igneous and metamorphic petrology are commonly taught together because they both contain heavy use of chemistry, chemical methods, and phase diagrams. Sedimentary petrology is, on the other hand, commonly taught together with stratigraphy because it deals with the processes that form sedimentary rock.

Intrusive rock intrusive volcanic rocks

Intrusive rock is formed when magma penetrates existing rock, crystallizes and solidifies underground to form intrusions, for example plutons, batholiths, dikes, sills, laccoliths, and volcanic necks. Some geologists use the term plutonic rock synomymously with intrusive rock but other geologists subdivide intrusive rock, by crystal size, into coarse-grained plutonic rock and medium-grained subvolcanic or hypabyssal rock.

History

The range was named after French Navy Lieutenant Jules de Blosseville's Brig of War La Lilloise that sank off the Blosseville Coast in 1833. Captain and crew perished and three expeditions organized to find the whereabouts of the ship failed to find any trace of the wreck. [3]

French Navy Maritime arm of the French Armed Forces

The French Navy, informally "La Royale", is the maritime arm of the French Armed Forces. Dating back to 1624, the French Navy is one of the world's oldest naval forces. It has participated in conflicts around the globe and played a key part in establishing the French colonial empire.

Jules de Blosseville French explorer

Jules Poret de Blosseville was a French naval officer, geographer and explorer. Born in 1802, he joined the French Navy at the age of 16. From 1822 to 1825, he participated in an expedition that explored the South Pacific and, by its conclusion, circumnavigated the world. He disappeared in August 1833, while in command of his own expedition to the Arctic.

Blosseville Coast Coastal region in Sermersooq, Greenland

The Blosseville Coast is a long stretch of coast in King Christian IX Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Sermersooq Municipality.

In 1962, a VP-5 Lockheed P-2 Neptune on a patrol mission crashed into the slope of the Kronborg Glacier close to this range, killing all twelve men aboard. The crash site was finally discovered in 1966 when four geologists found it, but it was not until 2004 that the US Navy recovered all the crew remains and memorialized the deceased at the crash site. [4]

VP-5 United States Navy aviation squadron

Patrol Squadron FIVE (VP-5) is a long-lived maritime patrol squadron of the United States Navy. It is the second squadron to bear the VP-5 designation. VP-5 is the second oldest patrol squadron, the fourth oldest in the United States Navy, and the 33rd oldest squadron in the United States military. As of early 2015, VP-5 is still active and is based at NAS Jacksonville, Florida.

Lockheed P-2 Neptune family of maritime patrol aircraft

The Lockheed P-2 Neptune was a maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft. It was developed for the US Navy by Lockheed to replace the Lockheed PV-1 Ventura and PV-2 Harpoon, and was replaced in turn by the Lockheed P-3 Orion. Designed as a land-based aircraft, the Neptune never made a carrier landing, but a small number were converted and deployed as carrier-launched, stop-gap nuclear bombers that would have to land on shore or ditch. The type was successful in export, and saw service with several armed forces.

In 1974 the Lilloise Range was explored by a team of mountaineers from the Sheffield and Aberdeen universities. [5]

Geography

The Lilloise Range is an up to 2,429 m (7,969 ft) high mountain massif made up of nunataks. It is located southeast of the Watkins Range between the Rosenborg Glacier to the west and the Kronborg Glacier to the east. The southern end of the range rises close to the sea, in the Denmark Strait area, north of Cape Rink and NW of the Stephensen Fjord. [1] The area of the range is uninhabited. [6]

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.

Watkins Range range in Greenland

The Watkins Range is Greenland's highest mountain range. It is located in King Christian IX Land, Sermersooq municipality.

Kronborg Glacier

Kronborg Glacier is a glacier on the east coast of the Greenland ice sheet. It is named after Kronborg Castle in Denmark. Administratively this glacier is part of the Sermersooq Municipality. The area surrounding the Kronborg Glacier is remote and uninhabited.

Mountains


Defense Mapping Agency map of Greenland sheet showing the highest point of the Lilloise Range marked as 8202 ft, just below the Watkins Range Operational Navigation Chart C-13, 3rd edition.jpg
Defense Mapping Agency map of Greenland sheet showing the highest point of the Lilloise Range marked as 8202 ft, just below the Watkins Range
Ill-fated Brig La Lilloise, after which the range was named. The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine (1848) (14760454371).jpg
Ill-fated Brig La Lilloise, after which the range was named.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Lilloise Bjerge". Mapcarta. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  2. ↑ The Lilloise Intrusion, East Greenland: Fractionation of a Hydrous Alkali Picritic Magma
  3. ↑ de Blosseville, Ernest Poret (1854). Jules de Blosseville (in French). Evreux: A. Herissey.
  4. ↑ The fifty-year saga of the aircraft LA-9
  5. ↑ "Triennial Report 1973-5, Greenland" (PDF). Alpine Journal. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  6. 1 2 3 Google Earth
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