Gefiontinde (Gefion Peak) is the highest

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( da, Dronning Louise Land), NE

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area of northeastern

. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. This peak was named after Gefion, the virgin sister of Danish deities who is said to have ploughed the whole Danish island of

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Geography

Gefiontinde is the highest peak in a group of peaks named ''Gefions Tinder'' or '' Gefiontinder'' at the southwestern end of Queen Louise Land, between Pony Glacier and Budolfi Isstrøm.GEUS Map - Northern East Greenland; Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 21 Map 4 - 1:1 000 000
/ref> The nunatak group was named ''Gefions Tinder'' or ''Gefiontinder'' by the 1912–13 Danish Expedition to Queen Louise Land and Across the North Greenland Ice Sheet led by J.P. Koch. Gefiontinde is a peak. This mountain is marked as a peak in the

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Gefion Tinder - WeatherIce recession in Dronning Louise Land, north-east Greenland
Gefiontinde {{Greenland-geo-stub

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