Faraway How

{{Short description|Nunatak in Greenland}}

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Faraway How is a nunatak in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it falls under the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.

This geographic feature was named by the 1926 Cambridge Expedition to East Greenland led by Sir James Wordie.{{cite web|title=Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland |publisher=Geological Survey of Denmark |url=http://www.geus.dk/publications/bull/nr21/nr21_p117-368.pdf3 |accessdate=8 July 2016 }}{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Geography

Faraway How is located in the Wordie Glacier north of Steno Land and 9 km to the west of C. H. Ostenfeld Nunatak's northern end.{{cite web|url=http://mapcarta.com/19193372|title=Faraway How|work=Mapcarta|accessdate=8 July 2016}}

Faraway How is 7.8 km in length and its maximum width is 3.2 km; the highest elevation is located at the western end and is {{convert|1398|m|ft|0}} high.

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See also

Bibliography

  • {{cite journal|last1=Wordie|first1=J. M.|last2=Manley|first2=G.|last3=White|first3=P. F.|last4=Johnson|first4=D. McI.|title=The Cambridge Expedition to East Greenland in 1926|journal=The Geographical Journal|volume= 70| issue = 3|pages=225–265|year=1927|doi= 10.2307/1781943|jstor=1781943}}

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