Mount Wistar
{{Short description|Mountain in Peary land, Greenland}}
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| other_name =Wistar Bjerg
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| elevation_m = 1737
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| location = Peary Land, Greenland
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| map_size = 260
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| range = Nordkrone
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Mount Wistar ({{langx|da|Wistars Fjeld}} or Wistar Bjerg) is a mountain in Peary Land, Northern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.
==History==
Mt Wistar was deemed to have been seen in 1900 by Robert Peary from the northern side of the Frederick E. Hyde Fjord. It was named after General Isaac J. Wistar (1827-1905), then President of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Peary thought he recognized it as a mountain he had seen from Navy Cliff in his 1892 expedition. It was mapped by Danish Arctic explorer Lauge Koch and named (Wistars Fjeld) during his Cartographic Air Expedition of 1938. In 1950 Eigil Knuth, the leader of the Danish Peary Land Expedition, asserted that the mountain was part of Nordkrone.Spencer Apollonio, Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland, 2008 p. 86
Geography
Mt Wistar is the highest peak of the Nordkrone[https://tidsskrift.dk/geografisktidsskrift/article/view/48443/61338 Geografisk Tidsskrift, Bind 50 (1950) Dansk Pearyland Ekspedition. Sidste års meteorologi og topografisk overblik] and is located to the south of the middle stretch of Frederick E. Hyde Fjord in Peary Land, east of the eastern shore of Thor Fjord and west of Freja Fjord.[https://asiaq.maps.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=c5c7d9d52a264980a24911d7d33914b5 Nunat Aqqi; Stednavne] The mountain rises northwest of the Balder Glacier.{{cite web|url=https://mapcarta.com/19183092|title=Wistar Bjerg|work=Mapcarta|accessdate=8 July 2016}}
Polar climate prevails in the area of Mt Wistar, the average annual temperature in the area being {{convert|-17|°C|abbr=on}}. The warmest month is July when the average temperature rises to {{convert|-2|°C|abbr=on}} and the coldest is April with {{convert|-24|°C|abbr=on}}.{{cite web|url= https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/dataset_index.php|title= NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index|work=NASA|accessdate=10 June 2019}}
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See also
Bibliography
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20161024163648/http://www.geus.dk/minex/green-min-2015.pdf Greenland geology and selected mineral occurrences - GEUS]