Mount Paatusoq
{{Short description|Mountain in Greenland}}
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| location = Mount Paatusoq, SE Greenland
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}}File:Lindenow-Greenland-onc d 16-map-section.jpgMount Paatusoq, also known as 'Mount Patuersoq', Alun Richardson, Rucksack Guide - Mountaineering in Remote Areas of the World, p. 125 is the highest mountain in the Kujalleq municipality, SE Greenland.{{cite web|url=http://mapcarta.com/19188046|title=Paatusoq|work=Mapcarta|accessdate=14 June 2016}}
Paatusoq is also the highest peak in the King Frederick VI Coast area of far southeastern Greenland.
History
Long considered the highest unclimbed peak in remote southeastern Greenland, Mt Paatusoq was finally climbed in 1966 by Austrian alpinist Toni Dürnberger in very difficult conditions. Some of the team members fell into a crevasse and one of them was seriously injured.{{cite web|url=https://paatusoq.blogspot.com/|title=„…Nacht in der Gletscherspalte verbracht“|work=Stadt Heilbronn|accessdate=17 June 2021}} Dürnberger had previously led the 1962 Austro-German Greenland Expedition (Österreichische Deutsche Grönland Expedition 1962) that had climbed unscaled peaks in the Sermilik area from April to July 1962.[http://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12196738001/North-America-Greenland-South-Greenland AAJ - North America, Greenland, South Greenland]
Geography
Rising on the northern side of the inner end of Paatusoq fjord Mount Paatusoq is an isolated peak in a remote and uninhabited location. This mighty mountain rises steeply from the glacier located north of the nunatak at the glacier confluence that has its terminus in Paatusoq fjord 10 km to the ESE.
In the western part of Paatusoq fjord the mountain ranges on both sides of the fjord rise steeply from the shore to heights of about {{convert|2000|m|abbr=on}}. The massive succession of mountains on the northern side culminates in this magnificent ultra-prominent peak towering to a height of {{convert|2488|m|abbr=on}} above the glacier at the head of the fjord.
This mountain is marked as a {{convert|8238|ft|m|adj=mid|-high|0}} peak in the Defense Mapping Agency Greenland Navigation charts[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/onc/txu-pclmaps-oclc-8322829_d_16.jpg 1:1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart, Sheet D-16] and as a {{convert|8990|ft|m|adj=mid|-high|0}} mountain in other sources.[http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=731 Patuersoq, Greenland]
Geologically the western end of the range and the mountains in the nunatak south of it are part of the Paatusoq Syenite Complex.{{cite web|url=http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2014/EGU2014-5666-1.pdf|title=The Lost Gardar Intrusion: Critical Metal Exploration at the Paatusoq Syenite Complex, South East Greenland|work=Geophysical Research Abstracts|accessdate=14 June 2016}}
See also
References
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External links
- [http://uhspring2014greenland.blogspot.sg/2014/03/global-and-local-winds-in-greenland.html Greenland's Climate Change]
- [http://jgs.lyellcollection.org/content/156/1/15.abstract JGS - Emplacement of rapakivi granite and syenite by floor depression and roof uplift in the Palaeoproterozoic Ketilidian orogen, South Greenland]
- [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1792321?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents JSTOR The Geographical Journal Vol. 130, No. 4 (Dec., 1964), pp. 572-574]
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Category:Nunataks of Greenland
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