Lilloise Range
{{Short description|Mountain range in eastern Greenland}}
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| photo_caption= Wreckage of a US Navy P-2V Neptune that crashed in the Kronborg Glacier with one of the peaks of the Lilloise Range rising in the distance.
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The Lilloise Range or Lilloise Mountains ({{langx|da|Lilloise Bjerge}}){{cite web|url=https://mapcarta.com/19189852|title=Lilloise Bjerge|work=Mapcarta|accessdate=8 June 2019}} is a mountain range in King Christian IX Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Sermersooq Municipality.
In petrology the Lilloise Intrusion is named after this range.[https://academic.oup.com/petrology/article-abstract/36/4/933/1481148?redirectedFrom=fulltext The Lilloise Intrusion, East Greenland: Fractionation of a Hydrous Alkali Picritic Magma]
History
The range was named after French Navy Lieutenant Jules de Blosseville's Brig of War La Lilloise that sank off the Blosseville Coast in 1833. Captain and crew perished and three expeditions organized to find the whereabouts of the ship failed to find any trace of the wreck.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eJBFcz4O_0oC&pg=PA25 |title=Jules de Blosseville |first=Ernest Poret |last=de Blosseville |language=French |publisher=A. Herissey |location=Evreux | year=1854}}
In 1962, a VP-5 Lockheed P-2 Neptune on a patrol mission crashed into the slope of the Kronborg Glacier close to this range, killing all twelve men aboard. The crash site was finally discovered in 1966 when four geologists found it, but it was not until 2004 that the US Navy recovered all the crew remains and memorialized the deceased at the crash site.[https://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/greenland-aircraft/ The fifty-year saga of the aircraft LA-9]
In 1974 the Lilloise Range was explored by a team of mountaineers from the Sheffield and Aberdeen universities.{{cite web|url=https://www.alpinejournal.org.uk/Contents/Contents_1976_files/AJ%201976%20206-212%20Fordham%20Greenland.pdf|title=Triennial Report 1973-5, Greenland|work=Alpine Journal|accessdate=8 June 2019}}
Geography
The Lilloise Range is an up to {{convert|2429|m|abbr=on}} high mountain massif made up of nunataks. It is located southeast of the Watkins Range between the Rosenborg Glacier to the west and the Kronborg Glacier —beyond which rises the Wiedemann Range— to the east. The southern end of the range rises close to the sea, in the Denmark Strait area, north of Cape Rink and NW of the Stephensen Fjord. The area of the range is uninhabited.Google Earth
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{{see also|List of mountains in Greenland}}
- Highest Point (2,429 m) at {{coord|68|34|N|28|48|W|}}
- Northern Peak (2,383 m) at {{coord|68|47|N|29|5|W|}}
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|File:Operational Navigation Chart C-13, 3rd edition.jpg map of Greenland sheet showing the highest point of the Lilloise Range marked as 8202 ft, just below the Watkins Range]] |File:The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine (1848) (14760454371).jpg La Lilloise, after which the range was named.]] |
See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281510516_The_East_Greenland_rifted_volcanic_margin The East Greenland rifted volcanic margin - ResearchGate]
Category:Mountain ranges of Greenland