The Daly Range or Daly Mountains ( da, Daly Bjerge) is a
mountain range
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in
Peary Land
Peary Land is a peninsula in northern Greenland, extending into the Arctic Ocean. It reaches from Victoria Fjord in the west to Independence Fjord in the south and southeast, and to the Arctic Ocean in the north, with Cape Morris Jesup, the nor ...
, Northern
Greenland
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. Administratively this range is part of the
Northeast Greenland National Park
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.
It forms the eastern end of the northernmost mountain range on Earth.
[2002 American Alpine Journal, p.286] The area of the range is barren and uninhabited.
History
The mountain chain was named by
Robert Peary
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after Judge
Charles P. Daly
Charles Patrick Daly (October 13, 1816 – September 19, 1899) was a member of the New York State Assembly, Chief Justice of the New York Court of Common Pleas, president of the American Geographical Society, and an author of several books.
Ea ...
, President of the
American Geographical Society
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and member of the executive committee of the
Peary Arctic Club in
New York
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In 1900 Peary saw the range from the coast and was the first to put it on the map. The Daly Range was further surveyed in 1907 by
Johan Peter Koch,
Aage Bertelsen and
Tobias Gabrielsen, the northern team of the ill-fated
Denmark expedition, when they reached their northernmost point,
Cape Bridgman.
[ G. Amdrup: ]
Report on the Danmark Expedition to the North-East Coast of Greenland 1906–1908
'. In: ''Meddelelser om Grønland'' 41, 1913, pp. 1–270 Aerial surveys by
Lauge Koch in 1930 during the
Three-year Expedition to East Greenland mapped the area with higher precision.
[Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Bulletin 21. 2010]
Still, the Daly Range remained very little explored until July 2000, when members of the
American Alpine Club
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made an attempt to climb the highest point up the Bertelsen Glacier to the base of the peak. This attempt, however, was thwarted by awful weather conditions and the mountain remained unclimbed until July 2003 when four alpinists led by
Dennis Schmitt were able to reach the highest point of the range from the Moore Glacier.
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Geography
The Daly Range is the easternmost subrange of the Roosevelt Range.Bertelsen Glacier
Bertelsen Glacier ( da, Bertelsen Gletscher) is a glacier in northern Greenland.Google Earth Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park. Between 2006 and 2010 there was an automatic weather station near the glacier.
The ...
.ice cap
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Description
Ice caps are not constrained by topographical featu ...
—Schmitt gives a height of that contradicts the height on maps.Johannes V. Jensen Land
Johannes V. Jensen Land is an area in Peary Land, Northern Greenland. Administratively it lies in the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. The area is remote and currently uninhabited.
Johannes V. Jensen Land is the northernmost region on Earth ...
southeast of Bliss Bay in the Wandel Sea, SW of Cape Bridgman and north of the mouth area of Frederick E. Hyde Fjord
Frederick E. Hyde Fjord is a fjord in Peary Land, far northern Greenland.
History
The fjord was named by Robert Peary during his 1900 expedition after Frederick Erastus Hyde, one of the founding members and first vice-president of the Peary Arc ...
, rising steeply above the coastal plain.
See also
* List of mountain ranges of Greenland
*Peary Land
Peary Land is a peninsula in northern Greenland, extending into the Arctic Ocean. It reaches from Victoria Fjord in the west to Independence Fjord in the south and southeast, and to the Arctic Ocean in the north, with Cape Morris Jesup, the nor ...
References
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External links
Greenland 2000 - Alpine JournalGreenland North Coast - Jeff Shea
Roosevelt Range