Halle Range | |
Other Name: | Hallebjergene |
Area Km2: | 300 |
Length Km: | 20 |
Length Orientation: | NW/SE |
Width Km: | 15 |
Width Orientation: | NE/SW |
Elevation M: | 1272 |
Range Coordinates: | 74.2333°N -66°W |
Period: | Upper Carboniferous[1] |
Map: | Greenland |
The Halle Range or Halle Mountains (Danish: Hallebjergene)[2] is a mountain range in Clavering Island, King Christian X Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.
The range was named by Lauge Koch during his 1929–30 expedition after Thore Gustav Halle (1884–1964), a professor at the University of Stockholm who had worked on the plant samples brought by the expedition. Formerly it had been also known as Joh. H. Andresenfjellet.[3]
The Halle Range is an up to 1200 m high little glaciated mountain massif located in the southwest part of Clavering Island (Clavering Ø). Its average elevation is 912 m and the highest point of the range is 1272 m high Bramsen Bjerg. The Vildbækdalen is a valley in the heart of the range. The area of the Halle mountains is uninhabited.[4]