Mount Paatusoq, also known as 'Mount Patuersoq', is the highest

mountain A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher ...

in the

Kujalleq Kujalleq ( Greenlandic: , da, Den Syden, lit=The South) is a municipality on the southern tip of Greenland, operational from 1 January 2009. The administrative center of the municipality is in Qaqortoq (formerly called Julianehåb). Creation ...

municipality, SE

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 ...

. Paatusoq is also the highest peak in the

King Frederick VI Coast King Frederick VI Coast ( da, Kong Frederik VI Kyst) is a major geographic division of Greenland. It comprises the coastal area of Southeastern Greenland in Sermersooq and Kujalleq municipalities fronting the Irminger Sea of the North Atlantic ...

area of far southeastern Greenland.

History

Long considered the

highest unclimbed peak An unclimbed mountain is a mountain peak that has yet to be climbed to the top. Determining which unclimbed peak is highest is often a matter of controversy. In some parts of the world, surveying and mapping are still unreliable. There are no co ...

in remote southeastern Greenland, Mt Paatusoq was finally climbed in 1966 by Austrian alpinist

Toni Dürnberger Toni Dürnberger (11 September 1932 – 17 August 1992) was an Austrian mountaineer and expedition leader. Biography From April to July 1962, Dürnberger led the Austro-German Expedition to Greenland ''(Österreichische Deutsche Grönland Expedit ...

in very difficult conditions. Some of the team members fell into a crevasse and one of them was seriously injured. Dürnberger had previously led the 1962 Austro-German Greenland Expedition ''(Österreichische Deutsche Grönland Expedition 1962)'' that had climbed unscaled peaks in the

Sermilik Sermilik ( da, Egede og Rothes Fjord) is a fjord in eastern Greenland. It is part of the Sermersooq municipality. The settlement of Tasiilaq is located about 15 km to the east of the mouth of the fjord. Geography This fjord, whose Gre ...

area from April to July 1962.AAJ - North America, Greenland, South Greenland
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Geography

Rising on the northern side of the inner end of

Paatusoq Paatusoq, mentioned as 'Patursok' by Wilhelm August Graah, is a fjord in the King Frederick VI Coast, Kujalleq municipality, southeastern Greenland. Its name means "The one with the big mouth" in the Greenlandic language. Geography Paatusoq Fjord ...

fjord Mount Paatusoq is an isolated peak in a remote and uninhabited location. This mighty mountain rises steeply from the

glacier A glacier (; ) is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires distinguishing features, such a ...

located north of the

nunatak A nunatak (from Inuit language, Inuit ''nunataq'') is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge. They are also called glacial islands. Examples are natural p ...

at the glacier confluence that has its terminus in Paatusoq fjord 10 km to the ESE. In the western part of Paatusoq fjord the mountain ranges on both sides of the fjord rise steeply from the shore to heights of about . The massive succession of mountains on the northern side culminates in this magnificent

ultra-prominent peak An ultra-prominent peak, or Ultra for short, is a mountain summit with a topographic prominence of or more; it is also called a P1500. The prominence of a peak is the minimum height of climb to the summit on any route from a higher peak, or fro ...

towering to a height of above the glacier at the head of the fjord. This mountain is marked as a peak in the

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Greenland Navigation charts and as a mountain in other sources.Patuersoq, Greenland
/ref> Geologically the western end of the range and the mountains in the

south of it are part of the Paatusoq

Syenite Syenite is a coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock with a general composition similar to that of granite, but deficient in quartz, which, if present at all, occurs in relatively small concentrations (< 5%). Some syenites contain larger prop ...

Complex.

References

External links

Greenland's Climate ChangeJGS - Emplacement of rapakivi granite and syenite by floor depression and roof uplift in the Palaeoproterozoic Ketilidian orogen, South GreenlandJSTOR The Geographical Journal Vol. 130, No. 4 (Dec., 1964), pp. 572-574

Kujalleq Nunataks of Greenland {{Greenland-geo-stub

History

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