Azimuthbjerg ( kl, Miialeqaaq) is the highest
mountain
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in
Skjoldungen
Skjoldungen ( kl, Saqqisikuik) is a large uninhabited island in the King Frederick VI Coast, southeastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Sermersooq municipality. The weather of the island is characterized by tundra climate.
The i ...
Island, SE
Greenland
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.
Geography
This multi-peaked mountain rises steeply from the shore of the northern end of the
Southern Skjoldungen Fjord
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( kl, Iittuarmiit), at the NW corner of Skjoldungen Island in the
Sermersooq
Sermersooq (, da, sted med meget is, lit=place of much ice) is a municipality in Greenland, formed on 1 January 2009 from five earlier, smaller municipalities. Its administrative seat is the city of Nuuk (formerly called Godthåb), the capital ...
municipality. It is a
ultra-prominent peak
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. This mountain is marked as a peak in the
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Greenland Navigation charts.
1:1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart, Sheet D-16
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See also
*List of mountain peaks of Greenland
This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaksThis article defines a significant summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence, and a major summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence. All ...
*List of mountains of 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 the ultra-prominent summits of North America
The following sortable tables comprise the most topographically prominent mountain peaks of greater North America. Each of these 353 summits has at least of topographic prominence.
This article defines greater North America as the portion ...
*List of the major 100-kilometer summits of North America
The following sortable table comprises the 230 mountain peaks of greater North AmericaThis article defines greater North America as the portion of the continental landmass of the Americas extending westward and northward from the Isthmus ...
References
External links
Skjoldungensund, SE Greenland
(View of the Azimuthbjerg on the left of the picture)
Azimuthbjerg
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