The H. H. Benedict Range or H. H. Benedict Mountains () 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 ...

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

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. Administratively this range is part of the

Northeast Greenland National Park Northeast Greenland National Park (, ) is the world's largest national park and the 10th largest protected area (the only larger protected areas consist mostly of sea). Established in 1974, the Northeast Greenland national park expanded to its p ...

. The H. H. Benedict range is part of the northernmost mountain system in the world.2002 American Alpine Journal, p.286 The area where its ridges rise is barren and uninhabited.

History

The mountain chain was named by

Robert Peary Robert Edwin Peary Sr. (; May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) was an American explorer and officer in the United States Navy who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was long credited as being ...

after Henry H. Benedict (1844–1935), one of the founding members of the

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.How Did Frederick E. Hyde Fjord Get Its Name?
/ref> Besides his financial support Mr Benedict had gifted a pianola for the entertainment of the members of the expedition.Robert Edwin Peary, ''The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club.'' Peary saw the range from a distance, but didn't explore it. Aerial surveys begun by

Lauge Koch Lauge Koch (5 July 1892 – 5 June 1964) was a Danish geologist and Arctic explorer. Biography Lauge Koch was born in 1892 to Karl and Elisabeth Koch. His development as a scientist was greatly influenced by his father's second cousin Johan Peter ...

in the 1920s mapped the area and Danish surveyors named some features. Only in 1996 did an expedition climb the highest point of the range.North America, Greenland, The Far North, Jensenland, Explorations of Most Northerly Land
/ref>Sitting on Top of the World
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Geography

The H. H. Benedict Range is a subrange of the

Roosevelt Range The Roosevelt Range or Roosevelt Mountains () is a mountain range in Northern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. Its highest peak is the highest point in Peary Land. Located about from the N ...

. Its highest peak is high

Stjernebannertinde Stjernebannertinde (Starry Banner Peak) is the highest mountain in the H. H. Benedict Range, a subrange of the Roosevelt Range, Northern Greenland. The peak was first climbed in 1996 by the members of the American Top of the World Expedition ( ...

, a conspicuous summit. The range is located in Northern Peary Land, stretching north of the Frederick E. Hyde Fjord. The valleys between the mountains are filled with glaciers, the largest of which are the Borup Glacier,

Moore Glacier Moore Glacier () 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 in the glacier. The glacier was named by Robert Pe ...

and Ydun Glacier. The H. H. Benedict Range runs roughly from east to west in Johannes V. Jensen Land east of the

Mary Peary Peaks The Mary Peary Peaks () are a mountain in the Roosevelt Range, Peary Land, Northern Greenland. Administratively they belong to the Northeast Greenland National Park. The peaks were named by Robert Peary after his mother, Mary Peary (1827 – 19 ...

. The

Daly Range The Daly Range or Daly Mountains () is a mountain range in Peary Land, Northern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. It forms the eastern end of the northernmost mountain range on Earth.2002 Am ...

''(Daly Bjerge)'' rises to the east, between the eastern end of the H. H. Benedict Range and the

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Geology

In the same manner as the Roosevelt Range the H. H. Benedict Range is part of the

Caledonian orogeny The Caledonian orogeny was a mountain-building cycle recorded in the northern parts of the British Isles, the Scandinavian Caledonides, Svalbard, eastern Greenland and parts of north-central Europe. The Caledonian orogeny encompasses events tha ...

extending eastward from north

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Glacial erratics on the Arctic Ocean margin of North Greenland: implications for an extensive ice-shelfUKH / Peary Land Greenland
Roosevelt Range

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