| Mount Wistar | |
|---|---|
| Wistar Bjerg | |
  Mount Wistar | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 1,737 m (5,699 ft) [1] |
| Coordinates | 82°53′15″N32°30′28″W / 82.88750°N 32.50778°W Coordinates: 82°53′15″N32°30′28″W / 82.88750°N 32.50778°W [1] |
| Geography | |
| Location | Peary Land, Greenland |
| Climbing | |
| First ascent | Unclimbed |
Mount Wistar (Danish : Wistar Bjerg) is a mountain in Peary Land, Northern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.
Mt Wistar is located to the south of the middle stretch of Frederick E. Hyde Fjord in Peary Land, southwest of the shore of the Freja Fjord. The mountain rises west of the Balder Glacier, beyond which rises the Nordkrone. [2]
Polar climate prevails in the area of Mt Wistar, the average annual temperature in the area being −17 °C (1 °F). The warmest month is July when the average temperature rises to −2 °C (28 °F) and the coldest is April with −24 °C (−11 °F). [3]
Mt Wistar was seen in 1900 by Robert Peary from the northern side of the Frederick E. Hyde Fjord. It was named after General Isaac J. Wistar (1827-1905), then President of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Peary thought he recognized it as a mountain he had seen from Navy Cliff in his 1892 expedition. [4]
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Greenland is located between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Canada and northwest of Iceland. The territory comprises the island of Greenland—the largest island in the world—and more than a hundred other smaller islands. Greenland has a 1.2 kilometre long border with Canada on Hans Island. A sparse population is confined to small settlements along certain sectors of the coast. Greenland possesses the world's second-largest ice sheet.
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