Castle
A castle is a type of fortification, fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by Military order (monastic society), military orders. Scholars usually consider a ''castle'' to be the private ...
Pinnacles' in the
Danish language
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, 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 aris ...
in
King Christian IX Land
King Christian IX Land () is a coastal area of Southeastern Greenland in Sermersooq Municipality fronting the Denmark Strait and extending through the Arctic Circle from 65°N to 70°N.
History
This area was named in September 1884 by Gustav ...
, eastern
Greenland
Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. It is by far the largest geographically of three constituent parts of the kingdom; the other two are metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenlan ...
. Administratively this range is part of the
Sermersooq
Sermersooq () is a municipality in Greenland, formed on 1 January 2009 from five previous, smaller municipalities. Its administrative seat is the city of Nuuk (formerly called Godthåb), the capital of Greenland, and it is the most populous ...
Municipality.
Geography
The Borgtinderne is a long
nunatak
A nunatak (from Inuit language, Inuit ) 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 often form natural pyramidal peaks. Isolated nunataks are also cal ...
with high mountains. It is located east of the
Ejnar Mikkelsen Range
Ejnar Mikkelsen Range () is a mountain range in King Christian IX Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Sermersooq Municipality.
The range is part of the greater Watkins Range and is named after Danish polar explorer Ejnar ...
Kronborg Glacier
Kronborg Glacier () is a glacier on the east coast of the Greenland ice sheet. It is named after Kronborg Castle in Denmark. Administratively this glacier is part of the Sermersooq Municipality.Google Earth The area surrounding the Kronborg Glacie ...
on its western side. The southern end of the range reaches the coast. The area of the Borgtinderne is uninhabited.
Google Earth
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Mountains
The highest point is Borgetinde, a mountain which has a wide reputation among
alpinist
Alpine climbing () is a type of mountaineering that uses any of a broad range of advanced climbing skills, including rock climbing, ice climbing, and/or mixed climbing, to summit typically large routes (e.g. multi-pitch or big wall) in an alpi ...
s and which is the easternmost summit of Greenland and greater North America.Tangent - Borgetinde /ref>
* Borgetinde (3,265 m); highest peak at
* Tall peak further north (3,197 m) at
* Peak SW of the tallest (2,909 m) at
* Northern end peak (2,389 m) at
Climate
Tundra climate
The tundra climate is a polar climate sub-type located in high latitudes and high mountains. It is classified as ET according to the Köppen climate classification. It is a climate which at least one month has an average temperature high enough ...
prevails in the region. The average annual temperature in the area of the range is -12 °C. The warmest month is July when the average temperature reaches 0 °C and the coldest is February when the temperature sinks to -21 °C.
See also
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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 Ra ...
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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 ...