Newton tops

Newton tops
	Southwest side of the Newton top
height	1713 moh.
location	Ny-Friesland , Svalbard
Mountains	Chydeniusfjella
Dominance	746.43 km → Hahn Land High Point, Greenland
Notch height	1713 m ↓ Fram Strait , Greenland Sea
Coordinates	79 ° 0 '38 " N , 17 ° 29' 27" E Coordinates: 79 ° 0 '38 " N , 17 ° 29' 27" E
Type	Rock peaks
rock	coarse-grained granite
Age of the rock	Sheinwoodium
First ascent	4th August 1900, Helge Backlund
Normal way	over the slowly rising south-east side
particularities	Highest mountain in Svalbard

At 1,713 meters, the Newtontoppen is the highest point in the Svalbard Archipelago in the Arctic Ocean .

history

Origin of the name

The Newton top was named after the English mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac Newton (1643–1727). Several other peaks in the area have been given the names of other famous mathematicians and physicists.

First ascent

The first ascent was made by the Swede Helge Backlund on August 4, 1900. He was on Svalbard from 1899 to 1901 as part of a Russian-Swedish expedition to measure meridional arcs .

Location and surroundings

The Newtontoppen is located in the Chydeniusfjella mountain group. This is located in the south of the Ny-Friesland area in the northeast of the main island of Svalbard . It is surrounded by some large glacial fields of the inland ice .

As the highest mountain in Svalbard, its dominance extends as far as the first mountains on the east coast of Greenland and is given as 746.43 kilometers. Near the dominance reference mountain are the north station and the most easterly point of Greenland with north-east rounding.

The second highest mountain in the archipelago, the Perriertoppen , is only one meter lower than the Newton tops.

Routes to the summit

The Newton top is far away from human settlements in the impassable and dangerous Arctic . Reaching the mountain by land on skis is like an expedition and takes several days. The summit of the Newtontoppen can be climbed relatively easily on skis or snowmobiles via the slowly rising south-east side . The north side and the south-west side drop off steeply.

Web links

Commons : Newtontoppen - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Synnøve Elvevold, Winfried Dallmann, Dierk Blomeier: The geology of Svalbard . Ed .: Norsk Polarinstitutt. Grafisk Nord AS, Polarmiljøsenteret, Tromsø 2007, ISBN 978-82-7666-241-2 , p. 13 ( bibsys.no [PDF; 4.3 MB ; accessed on September 10, 2015]).
↑ Statistisk sentralbyrå (Ed.): Svalbardstatistikk 2005 . PDC Tangen, Oslo / Kongsvinger 2005, ISBN 82-537-6809-5 , p. 136 (English, Norwegian, ssb.no [PDF; 6.8 MB ; accessed on September 24, 2015]).
↑ ^a ^b ^c Newton tops . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).
↑ Newtontoppen on Peakbagger.com (English)
↑ Perriertoppen on Peakbagger.com (English)
↑ Petter Bjørstad: Svalbard Trip Report, April 21, 2013 - May 5, 2013. Accessed June 23, 2014 .

[Geologie-1] Synnøve Elvevold, Winfried Dallmann, Dierk Blomeier: The geology of Svalbard . Ed .: Norsk Polarinstitutt. Grafisk Nord AS, Polarmiljøsenteret, Tromsø 2007, ISBN 978-82-7666-241-2 , p. 13 ( bibsys.no [PDF; 4.3 MB ; accessed on September 10, 2015]).

[2] Statistisk sentralbyrå (Ed.): Svalbardstatistikk 2005 . PDC Tangen, Oslo / Kongsvinger 2005, ISBN 82-537-6809-5 , p. 136 (English, Norwegian, ssb.no [PDF; 6.8 MB ; accessed on September 24, 2015]).

[Svalbard-3] Newton tops . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).

[4] Newtontoppen on Peakbagger.com (English)

[5] Perriertoppen on Peakbagger.com (English)

[6] Petter Bjørstad: Svalbard Trip Report, April 21, 2013 - May 5, 2013. Accessed June 23, 2014 .