Stauningalpen

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Stauningalpen
Southern Stauning Alps

Southern Stauning Alps

Highest peak Dansketinden ( 2842  m )
location Greenland
part of Scoresbyland
Northeast Greenland National Park
Stauningalpen (Greenland)
Stauningalpen
Coordinates 72 ° 0 ′  N , 25 ° 0 ′  W Coordinates: 72 ° 0 ′  N , 25 ° 0 ′  W
rock granite
surface 6,000 km²

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The Stauningalpen (also Stauningsalpen , Danish Stauning Alper ) are high mountains in Scoresbyland in the Northeast Greenland National Park . The Danish polar explorer Lauge Koch named it in the early 1930s after the then Danish Prime Minister Thorvald Stauning . The area is uninhabited, the nearest settlement is Ittoqqortoormiit (Scoresbysund), about 150 km away .

geography

The Stauningalpen, 500 km north of the Arctic Circle , extend over 100 km in a north-south direction and cover an area of ​​around 6000 km². They are bordered to the north by the Kong Oscar Fjord and the Segelsällskapets Fjord, to the west by the Alpefjord and the Borgbjerg Glacier and to the south by the Nordvestfjord and the Holger-Danske-Briller lakes. In the east, the Skeldal and Schuchertdal valleys as well as the Schuchert River represent the natural boundary. At its highest peak, Dansketinden , the mountains reach a height of 2842 meters. Other important mountains are Norsketinden (2797 m), Snetoppen (2763 m) and Korsspids (2751 m). The mountain valleys are filled by glaciers that meander leisurely to the north, east or south, only to the west are they steep and have dangerous ice breaks . The Stauningalpen consists of granite , which is harder in the northern part than in the southern part, which means that the mountains in the north of the mountain range are more rugged, while in the south they are more weathered and rounded.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Stauning Alper . In: Anthony K. Higgins: Exploration history and place names of northern East Greenland. (= Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 21, 2010). Copenhagen 2010, ISBN 978-87-7871-292-9 (English), accessed December 28, 2013
  2. ↑ a b c Colwyn Jones: Greenland Expedition 1996 (PDF; 2.7 MB), Expedition Report, The Scottish Mountaineering Club, p. 8 f (English)
  3. ↑ Map of the Stauning Alps on a scale of 1: 150,000, De Nationale Geologiske Undersøgelser for Danmark og Grønland (GEUS). (PDF; 3.3 MB)

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