Halle Range Explained

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]

Geography

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]

Mountains

See also

Notes and References

  1. Druid Wilson,Geologic Names of North America, Parts 1-2, p. 610
  2. Web site: Hallebjergene. Mapcarta. 22 June 2016.
  3. Web site: Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland . Geological Survey of Denmark . 18 June 2016.
  4. [Google Earth]