Devil's Castle (Greenland)
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| height | 1340 m | |
| location | Andrée Land , Greenland | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 22 ′ 19 ″ N , 25 ° 29 ′ 27 ″ W | |
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| First ascent | 1933 by Noel Odell and Walter A. Wood | |
 The devil's castle in the expedition report of the Second German North Polar Expedition |
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The Devil's Castle is a 1340 meter high mountain in Andrée Land in Northeast Greenland National Park .
geography
The isolated mountain stands on the southeast coast of Andrée Land, directly on the Kaiser-Franz-Joseph-Fjord . Opposite is the Ymer Island , to the north is the Eleonoren Bay (Eleonore Bugt).
history
The Devil's Castle was first sighted by Europeans on August 11, 1870 during the Second German North Pole Expedition led by Karl Koldewey . Julius Payer describes his impressions as follows: “A cubic rock colossus stretched out here on a narrow base as a headland far out into the fjord. Immediately from the blue water surface this mass rises to 1500 meters high; regular red-yellow, black and lighter stripes show the stratification of its rock. The oriels and turret-like projections on its edges give it a certain resemblance to a crumbling castle. We therefore also called it the devil's castle. "
The first ascent was made in 1933 by Noel Odell and Walter A. Wood , two members of the East Greenland expedition of the American Louise Boyd . The next known ascent was carried out by Erdhardt Fränkl and Fritz Schwarzenbach in 1950 during an expedition led by Lauge Koch .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Anthony K. Higgins: Exploration history and place names of northern East Greenland (= Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 21, 2010), ISBN 978-87-7871-292-9 (English). P. 323 ( PDF ; 12.3 MB).
- ↑ Map (PDF; 3.4 MB) of Northeast Greenland on a scale of 1: 1,000,000, De Nationale Geologiske Undersøgelser for Danmark og Grønland (GEUS).
- ↑ The Second German North Pole Voyage in 1869 and 1870 under the leadership of Captain Karl Koldewey . First volume: Erzählender Theil , Brockhaus, Leipzig 1874, p. 662 .