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Gronau Nunataks#Geography

{{Short description|Greenlandic mountain range}}

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The Gronau Nunataks ({{langx|da|Gronau Nunatakker}}){{cite web|url=http://mapcarta.com/19192952|title=Gronau Nunatakker|work=Mapcarta|accessdate=29 July 2016}} is a mountain range in King Christian IX Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Sermersooq Municipality.

History

This group of nunataks at the edge of the vast Greenland Ice Sheet was first reported by German aviation pioneer Wolfgang von Gronau during his 1930 transatlantic flight on a Dornier Wal.Gronau, W. von 1933: Im Grönland-Wal. Dreimal über den Atlantik und einmal um die Welt, 176 pp. Berlin: Reimar Hobbing

The existence of the range was later confirmed by Lauge Koch during flights in 1933 that were part of the 1931–34 Three-year Expedition to East Greenland (Treårsekspeditionen). Following the subsequent survey and mapping of the mountains they were named after Wolfgang von Gronau.{{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=31 July 2016 }}{{dead link|date=March 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Geography

The Gronau Nunataks is a long cluster of nunataks. It is located north of the Watkins Range, beyond the large Christian IV Glacier and to the northeast of the Lindbergh Range. The Greenland Ice Sheet lies to the north and the Wager Nunataks further to the east. The Gronau Glacier is located in the western part of the mountains. The area of the range is remote and uninhabited.Google Earth

The Dødemandstoppene (Danish for "Mountains of the Dead", lit. "Peaks of the Dead Men") is a geographic division or part of the Gronau Nunataks located on the eastern side of the Grønlands Styrelse Glacier. The name originated in 1934 at the time of the British Trans-Greenland Expedition by Sir Martin Lindsay in which the dark pyramid or tomb-like mountains were deemed sinister when first seen.

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=Peaks=

The highest point of the Gronau Nunataks is a 2,810 m mountain. The area has been explored in recent decades by alpinists and some of the peaks have been named, but data are lacking regarding the exact location of certain peaks.{{cite aaj|article_id=12200720100|year=2007|last=Engel|first=Hauke|title=Gronau Nunatakker, first ascents|pages=201–202|access-date=2025-01-13}}{{cite aaj|article_id=12200328200|year=2003|last=Burch|first=Sean|title=Gronau Nunatakker range, first ascents|pages=282–283|access-date=2025-01-13|links=off}}[http://www.arcticsummits.com/056e_besteigungen.engl.htm Arctic Summits - Summit Climbs][http://www.arcticsummits.com/056xe_Pilotsbjerg.engl.htm Arctic Summits - Pilotsbjerg, 2805m, First Ascent]

Some of the summits named recently are the following:

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Climate

Being so close to the Greenland Ice Sheet, Polar climate prevails in the Gronau Nunataks. The average annual temperature in the area of the range is -18 °C. The warmest month is July when the average temperature reaches -4 °C and the coldest is February when the temperature sinks to -25 °C.{{cite web|url= http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/dataset_index.php|title= NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index|work= NASA|accessdate= 30 January 2016|archive-date= 26 April 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200426054225/https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/dataset_index.php|url-status= dead}}

See also

References

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External links

  • [http://www.climbgreenland.com/index.php?id=cg_mount_history The Development of Mountaineering in East and North-East Greenland- An Outline History]
  • [http://www.climbgreenland.com/index.php?id=1529 Gronau Nunatakker]

Category:Mountain ranges of Greenland

Category:Nunataks of Greenland

Category:Sermersooq