Hornsundtind

Hornsundtind
	Hornsundtind from Hornsund seen from
height	1429 moh.
location	Sørkapp-Land , Svalbard
Coordinates	76 ° 55 '14 " N , 16 ° 8' 28" E Coordinates: 76 ° 55 '14 " N , 16 ° 8' 28" E
Type	Rock peaks
rock	crystalline limestone
Age of the rock	Cambrian , Ordovician
First ascent	July 26, 1938 by Herbert Rieche, Rudolf Bardodey and Leo Gburek
particularities	highest mountain in Sørkapp country

The Hornsundtind is a 1429 meter high mountain in the Svalbard Archipelago in the Arctic Ocean .

history

Origin of the name

The Hornsundtind was named after the Hornsund fjord directly to the north , where the Norwegian tind stands for tip . William Martin Conway mentions this name as early as 1897 next to Mount Hedgehog, which is commonly used by English whalers . The peak is recorded as Hornsundtind on the Spitzbergen map drawn up in 1919 by the Norwegian polar explorer Gunnar Isachsen .

First ascent

The first ascent of Hornsundtind was achieved by a German mountaineering expedition led by Herbert Rieche in 1938. Compared to the higher mountains Newton and Perriertoppen in the north-east of Spitsbergen, an ascent of Hornsundtind is much more difficult.

Location and surroundings

The Hornsundtind rises prominently on the southern bank of the Hornsund in the very north of Sørkapp-Land on the island of Spitsbergen. From the summit there are ridges to the east (Tindegga) and to the southwest (Conwaykammen). Connected to the southwest ridge follows the 1383 moh. high mountain Mehesten .

The Hornsundtind and the Mehesten are the two highest mountains in Sørkapp Land.

Web links

Hornsundtind in the norske leksikon store on snl.no (Norwegian)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Hornsundtind . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).
↑ ^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. 11 ( online [PDF; 4.3 MB ; accessed on September 10, 2015]).
^ Herbert Rieche: On Spitzbergens mountain peaks. In: Wolfgang Pillewizer : Glacier land in the Arctic. 2nd, unchanged edition. VEB FA Brockhaus Verlag, Leipzig 1967, pp. 173-187.

^ Martin Conway : The first crossing of Spitsbergen . JM Dent & Co., London 1897, p. 312 ( online [accessed September 27, 2014]).

^ Rolf Stange: Hornsund. In: Spitzbergen.de. September 30, 2010, accessed September 25, 2014 .

↑ Mehesten . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).

[Svalbard-1] Hornsundtind . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).

[Geologie-2] 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. 11 ( online [PDF; 4.3 MB ; accessed on September 10, 2015]).

[3] Herbert Rieche: On Spitzbergens mountain peaks. In: Wolfgang Pillewizer : Glacier land in the Arctic. 2nd, unchanged edition. VEB FA Brockhaus Verlag, Leipzig 1967, pp. 173-187.

[4] Martin Conway : The first crossing of Spitsbergen . JM Dent & Co., London 1897, p. 312 ( online [accessed September 27, 2014]).

[5] Rolf Stange: Hornsund. In: Spitzbergen.de. September 30, 2010, accessed September 25, 2014 .

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