Kayser Mountain | |
Other Name: | Kayser Bjerg |
Elevation M: | 1094 |
Elevation Ref: | [1] |
Location: | Hall Land, Greenland |
Map: | Greenland |
Map Size: | 260 |
Label Position: | bottom |
Range: | Haug Range |
Coordinates: | 81.5542°N -58.9744°W |
First Ascent: | Unknown |
Kayser Mountain (Danish: Kayser Bjerg) is a mountain in Hall Land, NW Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. This peak was named after German geologist and paleontologist Emanuel Kayser.
Kayser Mountain is located at the eastern end of the Haug Range in northern Hall Land, at the southern limit of the Polaris Foreland. It rises 6 km to the southwest of the shore of the Newman Bay fjord.[2] With a height of 1094m (3,589feet), Kayser Mountain is the highest elevation of Hall Land and of the Haug Range.[1]
Brachiopod fossils of genus Pentamerus dating back to the Lower Silurian have been found in this mountain.[3]