The Lilloise Range or Lilloise Mountains ( da, Lilloise Bjerge) is a

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, eastern

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. Administratively this range is part of 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. In

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the Lilloise Intrusion is named after this range.

History

The range was named after

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Lieutenant Jules de Blosseville's Brig of War ''La Lilloise'' that sank off the

Blosseville Coast The Blosseville Coast ( da, Blosseville Kyst) is a long stretch of coast in King Christian IX Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Sermersooq Municipality. The Blosseville Coast is steep and difficult to access by ship owing ...

in 1833. Captain and crew perished and three expeditions organized to find the whereabouts of the ship failed to find any trace of the wreck. In 1962, a VP-5

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on a patrol mission crashed into the slope of the Kronborg Glacier close to this range, killing all twelve men aboard. The crash site was finally discovered in 1966 when four geologists found it, but it was not until 2004 that the

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recovered all the crew remains and memorialized the deceased at the crash site.The fifty-year saga of the aircraft LA-9
/ref> In 1974 the Lilloise Range was explored by a team of

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s from the

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and

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universities.

Geography

The Lilloise Range is an up to high mountain massif made up of nunataks. It is located southeast of the

Watkins Range The Watkins Range ( da, Watkins Bjerge) is Greenland's highest mountain range. It is located in King Christian IX Land, Sermersooq municipality. The range was named after British Arctic explorer Gino Watkins. History Made up entirely of nu ...

between the

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to the west and the

Kronborg Glacier Kronborg Glacier ( da, Kronborg Gletscher) 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 surroun ...

—beyond which rises the

Wiedemann Range The Wiedemann Range ( da, Wiedemann Bjerge) is a mountain range in King Christian IX Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Sermersooq Municipality. History The range was visited in 1932 by a team of geologists belong ...

— to the east. The southern end of the range rises close to the sea, in the

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area, north of Cape Rink and NW of the Stephensen Fjord. The area of the range is uninhabited. Google Earth

Mountains

* Highest Point (2,429 m) at * Northern Peak (2,383 m) at

References

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External links

The East Greenland rifted volcanic margin - ResearchGate
Mountain ranges of Greenland Nunataks of Greenland Sermersooq

History

Geography

Mountains

See also

References

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