The Knud Rasmussen Range ( da, Knud Rasmussen Bjerge), also known as ''Usugdluk'', 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 arise ...
in West
Greenland
Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland i ...
. Administratively this range is part of
Qeqertalik
Qeqertalik (, da, Den Ene med Øerne, lit=The One with Islands) is a municipality of Greenland created in 2018 from four southern regions of the former Qaasuitsup Municipality.
Geography
Qeqertalik Municipality is flanked in the south by the ...
municipality.
The range is named after Greenlandic/Danish polar explorer
Knud Rasmussen
Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen (; 7 June 1879 – 21 December 1933) was a Greenlandic–Danish polar explorer and anthropologist. He has been called the "father of Eskimology" (now often known as Inuit Studies or Greenlandic and Arctic Studie ...
.
Geography
The Knud Rasmussen Range is a low mountain chain located west of the
Greenland Ice Sheet. It lies south of
Tycho Brahe Lake at the terminus of
J.P. Koch Glacier and north of
Usulluup Sermia glacier. Its average elevation is .
Elevation of Knud Rasmussen Bjerge Greenland with altitude and height
/ref> The Otto Nordenskjöld Valley divides the range in two parts.[ Google Earth]
Climate
Tundra climate
The tundra climate is a polar climate sub-type located in high latitudes and high mountains. undra climate https://www.britannica.com/science/tundra-climateThe Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2019 It is classified as ET according to Köppen ...
prevails in the Knud Rasmussen Range. The average annual temperature in the area of the range is -10 °C. The warmest month is July when the average temperature reaches 4 °C and the coldest is February when the temperature sinks to -20 °C.
See also
*List of mountain ranges of Greenland
This is a list of mountain ranges of Greenland.
List by alphabetical order
*Alángup Qáqai, located in SW Disko Island
*Albert Heim Range ''(Albert Heim Bjerge)'', located in northern Hudson Land, north of Promenadedal.
*Alexandrine Range ' ...
References
External links
Geoview - Knud Rasmussen Bjerge
Mountain ranges of Greenland
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