The Daly Range or Daly Mountains () is a

mountain range A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have aris ...

Peary Land Peary Land is a peninsula in northern Greenland, extending into the Arctic Ocean. It reaches from Victoria Fjord in the west to Independence Fjord in the south and southeast, and to the Arctic Ocean in the north, with Cape Morris Jesup, the nor ...

, Northern

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. Administratively this range is part of the

Northeast Greenland National Park Northeast Greenland National Park (, ) is the world's largest national park and the 10th largest protected area (the only larger protected areas consist mostly of sea). Established in 1974, the Northeast Greenland national park expanded to its p ...

. It forms the eastern end of the northernmost mountain range on Earth.2002 American Alpine Journal, p.286 The area of the range is barren and uninhabited.

History

The mountain chain was named by

Robert Peary Robert Edwin Peary Sr. (; May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) was an American explorer and officer in the United States Navy who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was long credited as being ...

after Judge Charles P. Daly, President of the

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and member of the executive committee of the

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. In 1900 Peary saw the range from the coast and was the first to put it on the map. The Daly Range was further surveyed in 1907 by Johan Peter Koch,

Aage Bertelsen Aage Bertelsen (28 September 1873 – 9 September 1945) was a Danish painter. He was a member of the Denmark Expedition to North-East Greenland. He has also worked for Kähler Keramik in Næstved. Biography Early life and career Aage Bertels ...

and Tobias Gabrielsen, the northern team of the ill-fated

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, when they reached their northernmost point,

Cape Bridgman Cape Bridgman () is a headland in the Wandel Sea, Arctic Ocean, northeast Greenland. The cape was named by Robert Peary after Herbert L. Bridgman, one of the members of the Peary Arctic Club in New York. The northernmost human remains of the I ...

. G. Amdrup:
Report on the Danmark Expedition to the North-East Coast of Greenland 1906–1908
'. In: ''Meddelelser om Grønland'' 41, 1913, pp. 1–270 Aerial surveys by

Lauge Koch Lauge Koch (5 July 1892 – 5 June 1964) was a Danish geologist and Arctic explorer. Biography Lauge Koch was born in 1892 to Karl and Elisabeth Koch. His development as a scientist was greatly influenced by his father's second cousin Johan Peter ...

in 1930 during the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland mapped the area with higher precision.Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Bulletin 21. 2010 Still, the Daly Range remained very little explored until July 2000, when members of the

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made an attempt to climb the highest point up the Bertelsen Glacier to the base of the peak. This attempt, however, was thwarted by awful weather conditions and the mountain remained unclimbed until July 2003 when four alpinists led by

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were able to reach the highest point of the range from the Moore Glacier.North America, Greenland, The Far North, Jensenland, Explorations of Most Northerly Land
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Geography

The Daly Range is the easternmost subrange of the

Roosevelt Range The Roosevelt Range or Roosevelt Mountains () is a mountain range in Northern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. Its highest peak is the highest point in Peary Land. Located about from the N ...

. Its highest peak rises above the confluence of the Moore Glacier and the Bertelsen Glacier. It is a prominent high summit covered by an

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—Schmitt gives a height of that contradicts the height on maps. This mountain chain runs roughly from WNW to ESE at the eastern end of Johannes V. Jensen Land southeast of Bliss Bay in the

Wandel Sea The Wandel Sea (; also known as McKinley Sea) is a body of water in the Greenland Sea, stretching from northeast of Greenland to Svalbard. It is obstructed by ice most of the year. This sea is named after Danish polar explorer and hydrographer, ...

, SW of Cape Bridgman and north of the mouth area of Frederick E. Hyde Fjord, rising steeply above the coastal plain. The H. H. Benedict Range ''(H. H. Benedict Bjerge)'' rises to the west and southwest, beyond the Moore Glacier.

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External links

Greenland 2000 - Alpine JournalGreenland North Coast - Jeff Shea
Roosevelt Range

History

Geography

See also

References

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