Rigny Bjerg

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Mount Rigny
Rignys Bjerg
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Mount Rigny
Highest point
Elevation 2,734 m (8,970 ft)
Listing List of mountains in Greenland
Coordinates 69°2′55″N26°49′23″W / 69.04861°N 26.82306°W / 69.04861; -26.82306 [1]
Geography
Location Sermersooq, Greenland
Climbing
First ascent 2003 [1]

Mount Rigny (Danish : Rigny Bjerg, Rignys Bjerg) is a mountain peak in East Greenland. [1] [2] It is located in King Christian IX Land, Sermersooq Municipality.

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The mountain was named by Jules de Blosseville, after French naval officer Marie Henri Daniel Gauthier, comte de Rigny (1782–1835). [3]

Geography

Mount Rigny is the highest peak in a mountainous area east of the Sortebrae Glacier close to the Blosseville Coast. Reaching 2,734 m (8,970 ft), [4] Rigny Bjerg was marked on Jules de Blosseville's map of 1833 which also contained a drawing of the mountain's profile as seen from the sea. The mountain was then identified by the 1895-96 Ingolf Expedition led by C.F. Wandel, and its approximate position determined by the 1898–1900 Carlsbergfund Expedition to East Greenland led by G.C. Amdrup. [2] This mountain's elevation and position are incorrect in the Defense Mapping Agency Greenland Navigation charts. [5]

In Rigny Berg there are routes popular with mountaineers, such as "Snow Falcon", [6] as well as neighboring peaks in the region such as RHARPeak. [7] The first successful ascent in 1998 by Russ Hore and AlRead.

The first full ascent of Rigny Bjerg was made on 19 July 2003 by the 'Midnight Sun 03 Expedition'. [1]

Certain studies claim that the mountain corresponds to the legendary Norsemen's Blåsærk [8] and to the Mount of Gods Mercie named by Henry Hudson in 1607. [9]

Defense Mapping Agency map of Greenland sheet. Operational Navigation Chart C-13, 3rd edition.jpg
Defense Mapping Agency map of Greenland sheet.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Rigny Bjerg". Mapcarta. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  3. ↑ Løve, Jan - Østgrønlands stednavne - fra den første kortlægning: Blossevilles togt med "La Lilloise" i 1833. Arktisk Institut
  4. ↑ Google Earth
  5. ↑ 1:1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart, Sheet C-13
  6. ↑ Rockclimbing - Snow Falcon - WI3
  7. ↑ Rockclimbing - RHARPeak
  8. ↑ "Blue Shirt" - probably a descriptive name alluding to a dark appearance towering over the white inland ice, cf Hvitserk.
  9. ↑ Tornøe, Johannes Kristoffer (1964). Early American history: Norsemen before Columbus. London: Allen & Unwin. p. 126.
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