Alabama Nunatak
| Alabama Nunatak | |
|---|---|
  Alabama Nunatak | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 1,520 m (4,990 ft)[1] |
| Prominence | 615 m (2,018 ft)[1] |
| Coordinates | 78°0′N 24°0′W / 78.000°N 24.000°WCoordinates: 78°0′N 24°0′W / 78.000°N 24.000°W[2] |
| Geography | |
| Location | Greenland |
Alabama Nunatak is a nunatak in the King Frederick VIII Land area of northeastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.
History[]
This nunatak was named by Ejnar Mikkelsen after his ship during the 1909-12 .[3] Mikkelsen and Iver Iversen went up the Storstrommen to reach the head of the Danmark Fjord, leaving this nunatak on the left in their arduous dogsled journey over the ice.[4]
Few details are known about the circumstances of sighting and mapping of this nunatak, for Mikkelsen's diary, which had been kept in a cache at a rocky islet in Skaer Fjord, was destroyed by a polar bear.[5]
Geography[]
The Alabama Nunatak is located just north of the , the northernmost spur of the Queen Louise Land group, and south of the . It rises at the SW end of Duke of Orleans Land, west of the area where the Storstrommen begins to flow southwards.[6]
 Defense Mapping Agency map of NE Greenland. |
 "Alabama", the ship of Mikkelsen's expedition, after which the nunatak is named. |
See also[]
- List of mountains in Greenland
- List of nunataks of Greenland
References[]
- ^ a b Alabama Nunatak - PeakVisor
- ^ GoogleEarth
- ^ Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
- ^ Spencer Apollonio, Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland, 2008; p. 125
- ^ GREENLAND - Full Text
- ^ "Alabama Nunatak". GeoHack. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
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