Mount Clarence Wyckoff
Clarence Wyckoff Fjeld
Satellite image of the northern end of Greenland
Highest point
Elevation853 m (2,799 ft)[1]
Prominence290 m (950 ft)[2]
Listing
Coordinates82°48′N 23°20′W / 82.800°N 23.333°W / 82.800; -23.333[3]
Geography
Mount Clarence Wyckoff is located in Greenland
Mount Clarence Wyckoff
Mount Clarence Wyckoff
Peary Land, Greenland
Parent rangePeary Land

Mount Clarence Wyckoff (Danish: Clarence Wyckoff Fjeld or Clarence Wyckoff Bjerg)[4] is a mountain in Peary Land, Northern Greenland. Administratively the mountain belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park.[3]

The peak was named after Clarence F. Wyckoff, one of the members of the Peary Arctic Club in New York.[5]

The Wyckoff Bjerg Formation is named after the mountain. Fossils dating back to the Cambrian have been found in it.[6][7]

Geography

Mount Clarence Wyckoff is located to the north of Herlufsholm Strand, 18.5 kilometres (11 mi) northwest of Cape Henry Parish.[8] Rising above the eastern shore of Hellefisk Fjord, the 853 metres (2,799 ft) high peak is the highest in the coastal area.[1] The same mountain is mentioned as a 951 metres (3,120 ft) high peak with a prominence of 290 m (950 ft) according to other sources.[2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 PGC MapKap Eiler Rasmussen - 405 - GRL REF-MT0503-042
  2. 1 2 "Clarence Wyckoff Fjeld, Greenland". Peakery. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  3. 1 2 Google Maps
  4. ↑ Nunat Aqqi; Stednavne
  5. ↑ XIV. Der Peary Arctic Club - Projekt Gutenberg
  6. ↑ H.P. Trettin (ed.), Geology of the Innuitian Orogen and Arctic Platform of Canada and Greenland. p. 208
  7. ↑ Geological map of Greenland
  8. ↑ Greenland Pilot
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