Revaltoppe is one of the highest
mountain
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s in
Queen Louise Land
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, NE
Greenland
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. The peak is located in the
King Frederick VIII Land
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History
This va ...
area of northeastern
Greenland
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. Administratively it is part of the
Northeast Greenland National Park zone.
This peak was named after
Reval
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, the historical name of
Tallinn
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, the capital of
Estonia
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, where according to a legend, the ''Dannebrog'' (
flag of Denmark) is said to have dropped from the sky during a
battle
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between the Danes and the Estonians in 1219.
Geography
Revaltoppe is the highest peak in a group of
nunataks
to the west of
Dannebrogsfjeldene, at the southwestern end of Queen Louise Land ( da, Dronning Louise Land).
[GEUS Map - Northern East Greenland; Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 21 Map 4 - 1:1 000 000](_blank)
/ref> The nunatak group was named ''Reval Toppene'' or ''Revaltoppene'' by J.P. Koch’s 1912–13 Danish Expedition to Queen Louise Land.
Revaltoppe is a peak. This mountain is marked as a peak in the Defense Mapping Agency
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Greenland Navigation charts.1:1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart, Sheet B-9
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See also
* Gefiontinde, Queen Louise Land's highest point
*List of mountain peaks of Greenland
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*List of mountains in Greenland
This is a list of mountains in Greenland.
List
For each mountain, the municipality in which it is located is given, along with coordinates indicating the approximate centre of the mountain (follow the link to see satellite images of the location ...
* List of Nunataks#Greenland
References
External links
Reval Toppen, Greenland - Peakbagger
Ice recession in Dronning Louise Land, north-east Greenland
Revaltoppe
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