The Princess Elizabeth Alps ( da, Prinsesse Elisabeth Alper) 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 ...

King Frederick VIII Land King Frederick VIII Land ( da, Kong Frederik VIII Land) is a major geographic division of northeastern Greenland. It extends above the Arctic Circle from 76°N to 81°N in a N/S direction along the coast of the Greenland Sea. History This va ...

, northeastern

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. Administratively this range is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. The range was named by Eigil Nielsen during the 1938–39

Mørkefjord Expedition Mørkefjord, meaning in Danish "The dark fjord," is a fjord in King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. History Mørkefjord was named by the 1906-1908 Denmark expedition, which established a second weather station at Mørkefjord, in orde ...

after

Princess Elisabeth of Denmark Princess Elisabeth of Denmark, (''Elisabeth Caroline-Mathilde Alexandrine Helena Olga Thyra Feodora Estrid Margrethe Désirée''; 8 May 1935 – 19 June 2018) was a member of the Danish royal family. She was the only daughter and eldest child o ...

(1935–2018), daughter of Prince Knud.

Geography

The Princess Elizabeth Alps run roughly from north to south across the western half of the large Crown Prince Christian Land peninsula with an average elevation of . The range begins abruptly at the Ingolf Fjord in the south, with the mountains rising steeply from the shore. Towards the northern end the elevations decrease until the range becomes a chain of small nunataks barely rising above the surrounding ice sheet. Google Earth The area of the range is bounded in the north by the Flade Isblink, a massive

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, to the west by the Nunataami Elv valley, to the south by the Ingolf Fjord, and to the east by the Tobias Glacier, beyond which lies Amdrup Land. The Princess Caroline-Mathilde Alps located to the south in

Holm Land Holm Land ( da, Holms Land), sometimes referred to as "Hahn Land", is a peninsula in King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the NE Greenland National Park area. This peninsula was named by the 1906-1908 ...

across the fjord display a similar structure. The Princess Elizabeth Alps lie in a desolate and uninhabited part of Greenland. The nearest settlement is Nord, a military outpost with an airfield located about 60 km to the NNE of the northern end.

Mountains and glaciers

The range is an up to high largely

glaciated 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 as ...

mountain massif. The main summits are: *HP (1,466 m); highest peak at *Peak (1,446 m) at *Peak (1,440.7 m) at *Peak (1,422 m) at *Peak (1,330 m) at *Peak (1,327.7 m) at *Peak (1,326.8 m) at *Peak (1,313 m) at The Bjørne Glacier runs southwards, draining the area of the Princess Elisabeth Alps. Other important

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 as ...

s in the range are the Smalle Spaerre Glacier and the Hjørne Glacier.

Climate

The Princess Elizabeth Alps lie in the high

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zone.

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 area of the range, the

average annual temperature Climate is the long-term weather pattern in an area, typically averaged over 30 years. More rigorously, it is the mean and variability of meteorological variables over a time spanning from months to millions of years. Some of the meteorological ...

in the area being -16 °C . The warmest month is July when the average temperature rises to 0 °C and the coldest is January with -26 °C.

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Status of the endangered ivory gull, Pagophila eburnea, in GreenlandInSAR observations of ice elevation and velocity fluctuations at the Flade Isblink ice cap, eastern North Greenland
Mountain ranges of Greenland {{Greenland-geo-stub

Geography

Mountains and glaciers

Climate

See also

References

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