Roosevelt Range
Roosevelt Range | |
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Roosevelt Fjelde | |
Highest point | |
Peak | Helvetia Tinde |
Elevation | 1,929 m (6,329 ft) |
Dimensions | |
Length | 150 km (93 mi) E/W |
Width | 60 km (37 mi) N/S |
Geography | |
Country | Late Palaeozoic |
Type of rock | Sandstone, shale, mudstone and quartzite |
The Roosevelt Range or Roosevelt Mountains (Danish: Roosevelt Fjelde)[1] is a mountain range in Northern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. Its highest peak is the highest point in Peary Land.
Located about 720 kilometres (450 mi) from the North Pole, the Roosevelt Range is the northernmost mountain range on Earth.[2]
History
The mountain chain was named by Robert Peary after U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, who would become one of the main backers of Peary's 1905 Arctic expedition.
During the first half of the 20th century the range was quite unexplored, except for the mapping from the coast in 1907 of the Daly Range by Johan Peter Koch, Aage Bertelsen and Tobias Gabrielsen, the northern team of the ill-fated Denmark expedition,[3] as well as aerial surveys and mapping begun by Lauge Koch in the 1920s.
In 1953 a geological expedition crossed the range through the Polkorridoren pass from Frigg Fjord to Sands Fjord.[4]
The highest peak,
Geography
The Roosevelt Range is an up to 1,929 m (6,329 ft) high mountain range in Northern Peary Land, formed by alpine-type mountains. The topography of the mountains is deeply eroded, with sharp, jagged ridges and precipitous cliffs.[6] The area of the range is uninhabited.[4]
Owing to a structural continuum in the mountains between
The Roosevelt Range proper rises in Roosevelt Land in the west and stretches eastward across Gertrud Rask Land, north of a valley between the heads of the Harder Fjord in the west and the Frigg Fjord in the east. It extends eastwards in Johannes V. Jensen Land north of the Frederick E. Hyde Fjord beyond the Polkorridoren (Polar Corridor), a mountain pass connecting two glacial valleys running from North to South between the heads of Sands Fjord to the north and Frigg Fjord to the south. Its easternmost subranges almost reach the eastern end of northern Peary Land. The area near the Lincoln Sea coast, southwest of Cape Morris Jesup is known as Ulvebakkerne (Wolf Hills).[4]
Peaks
Apart from its highest point Helvetia Tinde, not many peaks of the Roosevelt Range have been named. Other relevant mountains in the range are Paradisfjeld and Mary Peary Peaks (Mary Peary Tinder), located east of the Polar Corridor in a roughly central position, as well as Birgit Koch Peaks (Birgit Koch Tinder) and Rink Mountain (Rink Bjerg), a little further to the east.[1]
Subranges
The H. H. Benedict Range (H. H. Benedict Bjerge), highest point Stjernebannertinde, and the Daly Range (Daly Bjerge), both located at the eastern end in Johannes V. Jensen Land, are subranges of the Roosevelt Range.[8][9]
Glaciers
The valleys between mountains are filled with glaciers or icefields, none of which are very large. In the same manner as other features in this range many glaciers are unnamed.[8]
- Thomas Glacier (Greenland)
- Raven Glacier
- A. Harmsworth Glacier
- Modvind Glacier
- Nord Glacier
- Syd Glacier
- Malcantone Glacier
- Nysne Glacier
- Sif Glacier
- Borup Glacier
- Moore Glacier
- Ydun Glacier
- Bertelsen Glacier
Geology
The Roosevelt Range forms the northern sub-region of the
Bibliography
- H.P. Trettin (ed.), Geology of the Innuitian Orogen and Arctic Platform of Canada and Greenland. 1991
See also
References
- ^ a b "Roosevelt Fjelde". Mapcarta. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
- ^ a b 2002 American Alpine Journal, p.286
- ^ G. Amdrup: Report on the Danmark Expedition to the North-East Coast of Greenland 1906–1908. In: Meddelelser om Grønland 41, 1913, pp. 1–270
- ^ a b c d Crossing North Peary Land in Summer 1953
- ^ North America, Greenland, North Peary Land, North Peary Land, First Ascents, a Traverse of the Peninsula and Confirmation of the World's Most Northerly Peak
- ^ a b H.P. Trettin (ed.), Geology of the Innuitian Orogen and Arctic Platform of Canada and Greenland. 1991, p. 46
- ^ W. E. Davies, Landscape of Northern Greenland 1972
- ^ a b "Roosevelt Range". Geographical Items on North Greenland Encyclopedia Arctica vol.14-0639. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
- ^ "Greenland Pilot" (PDF). Danish Geodata Agency. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
- ^ Alan Nairn (ed.), The Arctic Ocean, p. 246