Halle Range
The Halle Range or Halle Mountains (Danish: Hallebjergene)[2] is a mountain range in Clavering Island, King Christian X Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.
| Halle Range | |
|---|---|
| Hallebjergene | |
 Map of Clavering Island (Eskimonaes) and neighbouring areas | |
| Highest point | |
| Peak | Bramsen Bjerg |
| Elevation | 1,272 m (4,173 ft) |
| Dimensions | |
| Length | 20 km (12 mi) NW/SE |
| Width | 15 km (9.3 mi) NE/SW |
| Area | 300 km2 (120 sq mi) |
| Geography | |
  Location | |
| Country | Greenland |
| Range coordinates | 74°14′N 21°45′W |
| Geology | |
| Age of rock | Upper Carboniferous[1] |
The range was named by Lauge Koch during his 1929–30 expedition after Thore Gustav Halle (1884–1964), a professor at the University of Stockholm who had worked on the plant samples brought by the expedition. Formerly it had been also known as Joh. H. Andresenfjellet.[3]
Geography
The Halle Range is an up to 1200 m high little glaciated mountain massif located in the southwest part of Clavering Island (Clavering Ø). Its average elevation is 912 m and the highest point of the range is 1272 m high Bramsen Bjerg. The Vildbækdalen is a valley in the heart of the range. The area of the Halle mountains is uninhabited.[4]
 Detailed map of the area around Clavering Island. |
Mountains
- Bramsen Bjerg
- Brinkley Bjerg
- Dunken
- Eiger
- Forposten
- Gedderyggen
- Hjertet
- Højnålen
- Kisbjerg
- Langelinie
- Moltke Bjerg
- Monucleus
- Ortlerspids
- Pladen
- Skårene
- Steinmannspids
- Trinucleus
- Vestmar Bjerg
- Vesttinden
- Østtinden
See also
References
- Druid Wilson,Geologic Names of North America, Parts 1-2, p. 610
- "Hallebjergene". Mapcarta. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
- "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
- Google Earth