Norlund Alps
{{short description|Mountain range in Greenland}}
{{confusion|Norlund Land}}
{{Infobox mountain range
| name = Norlund Alps
| other_name=Nørlund Alper
| photo= Terminus of Wordie Glacier in northeast Greenland with small terminal moraine.jpg
| photo_size=
| photo_caption=Terminus of the Wordie Glacier with the Northern end of the Norlund Alps on the left.
| country=Greenland
| state=
| area=
| state_type=
| length_km= 60
| length_orientation=NW/SE
| width_km = 20
| width_orientation=NE/SW
| highest=
| elevation_m = 1715
| prominence_m =
| prominence_ref =
| listing = List of mountain ranges of Greenland
| location = Northeast Greenland National Park
| map = Greenland
| map_caption =
| map_size = 260
| label_position = right
| range_coordinates ={{coord|73|59|N|22|29|W|type:mountain_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| coordinates_ref = A. K. Higgins, Jane A. Gilotti, M. Paul Smith (eds.), The Greenland Caledonides: Evolution of the Northeast Margin of Laurentia.
| geology= Crystalline sedimentsFritz Hans Schwarzenbach, Altitude Distribution of Vascular Plants in Mountains of East and Northeast Greenland, p. 35
}}
The Norlund Alps ({{langx|da|Nørlund Alper}}) are a mountain range in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively these mountains are part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.Google Earth
History
The range was named during the 1929–1930 Expedition to East Greenland by Lauge Koch after Danish mathematician Niels Erik Nørlund (1885–1980) and after the Alps, for the mountains form an impressive Alpine landscape.
Norlund had been the director of the Geodætisk Institut between 1923 and 1955, as well as a member of the 1931–34 Three-year Expedition to East Greenland committee. The name was duly approved, but Norlund requested that it should not be printed on official maps until after his death.
Geography
The Norlund Alps are located east and northeast of the Stordalen valley, southeast of the Albert Heim Range, and west of Loch Fyne fjord. They stretch in a SE/NW direction in the northern part of Hudson Land, south and southeast of the terminus of the Wordie Glacier. The Promenadedal valley, beyond which lies the Albert Heim Range, forms the northern limit of the range on the western side and the slopes of the northeasternmost flank of the range form the southern shore of Wordie Bay.{{cite web | title = Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland | publisher = Geological Survey of Denmark | url = https://data.geus.dk/geusmap/?mapname=stednavnedb#baslay=baseMapGl&optlay=&extent=393132.57634440885,8875667.27470835,534548.3804393131,8941613.004729178&layers=grl_geus_north_east_higgins_map,grl_ne_higgins_placenames,grl_ne_placenames&filter_1=txt_search.part%3D%26placename%3D&filter_2=txt_search.part%3D%26placename%3D | accessdate = 27 September 2019}}
=Mountains and glaciers=
- Agnesbjerg at {{coord|74|02.7|N|22|34.5|W|}}
- Astrupfjellet; {{convert|1700|m}} high ridge at {{coord|73|59.3|N|22|25.5|W|}}
- Devon Hills —or Passage Hills; {{convert|900|m}} high mountains at {{coord|73|53.9|N|22|11.2|W|}}
- Hellandfjellet; ridge at {{coord|74|0|N|22|45.4|W|}}
- Rungstedbjerg at {{coord|74|02.4|N|22|38.4|W|}}
- Toretind at {{coord|74|01.1|N|22|26.3|W|}}
None of the glaciers in the Norlund Alps are very big. The A. Schmidt Glacier —also known as Hessbreen, Nippoldt Glacier and Haussman Glacier drain the northern area of the Norlund Alps and flow into Wordie Bay.{{cite web|url=https://mapcarta.com/19194562|title=A. Schmidt Gletscher|work=Mapcarta|accessdate=27 September 2019}}
Other glaciers in the range are Fellenberg Gletscher or Høygaardbreen and the Rungsted Glacier, flowing south of Rungstedbjerg.
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