| Mount Lugano | |
| Elevation M: | 2194 |
| Location: | Gletscherland |
| Map: | Greenland |
| Map Size: | 260 |
| Coordinates: | 72.8°N -54.1°W |
| First Ascent: | 1934 - Eugen Wegmann and Augusto Gansser |
Mount Lugano (Danish: Lugano Bjerg) is a mountain in eastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.[1]
This peak was named Monte Lugano, after the town of Lugano in Switzerland, by Swiss geologist Eugen Wegmann (1896 - 1982) at the time of Lauge Koch's 1931-34 Three-year Expedition to East Greenland. Louise Boyd had previously used the temporary names "Scoop Mountain" and "C. Mountain" in her 1931 Greenland expedition.[2]
Mount Lugano was first climbed by Eugen Wegmann, together with fellow Swiss geologist Augusto Gansser (1910 – 2012), on 11 August 1934.[2] According to an interview he gave in 1939 to the magazine Illustrazione Ticinese, Wegmann allegedly was overcome by nostalgia for pleasant Lugano, standing hungry and thirsty in the harsh polar weather at the summit of the mountain. Hence the name.[3]
Mount Lugano is the highest point of Gletscherland.[4] It is a roughly 2194m (7,198feet) high peak that rises in the northern part of Gletscherland, near the southern shore of Dickson Fjord. The summit of Mount Lugano has a concave shape topped by an ice cap that is apparent when viewed from Bocksrietdal in the west, across the Hisinger Glacier.[2]