Mary Peary Peaks
The Mary Peary Peaks (Danish: Mary Peary Tinder) are a mountain in the Roosevelt Range, Peary Land, Northern Greenland. Administratively they belong to the Northeast Greenland National Park.
Mary Peary Peaks | |
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Mary Peary Tinder | |
![]() Robert Peary's 1903 Northern Greenland map section | |
Highest point | |
Elevation | 1,850 m (6,070 ft)[1] |
Prominence | 503 m (1,650 ft)[1] |
Listing | |
Coordinates | 83°25′18″N 32°59′37″W[1] |
Geography | |
![]() ![]() Mary Peary Peaks | |
Parent range | Roosevelt Range |
Climbing | |
First ascent | No data[2] |
The peaks were named by Robert Peary after his mother, Mary Peary (1827 – 1900).[3] Peary saw the mountain from a distance, in the vicinity of Constable Bay, as he traveled along the shore. He marked it in his map but did not go inland to explore the features of the range.[4]
Geography
The Mary Peary Peaks are located in the middle sector of the Roosevelt Range east of the Polar Corridor in a roughly central position to the west of the western end of the H. H. Benedict Range.[5] The maximum height is 1,850 metres (6,070 ft).[1] According to the A-5 sheet of the Defense Mapping Agency Navigation chart it is a 6,200-foot-high (1,890 m) summit.[6]
The Sif Glacier originates in the ice cap of the Mary Peary Peaks. It flows in a WSW/ENE direction bifurcating south of the Birgit Koch Peaks with one arm flowing roughly northwards and another southwards.[7]
See also
References
- "Helvetia Tinde, Greenland". Peakbagger. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
- Longitude Zone High Points
- Daniel E. Harmon, Robert Peary. 2013
- Manliness and Exploration: The Discovery of the North Pole
- Google Maps
- 1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart; Sheet A-5
- Arctic Report, 121