The Norlund Alps () are a mountain range in
King Christian X Land, East
Greenland
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. Administratively these mountains are part of the
Northeast Greenland National Park
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.
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History
The range was named during the
1929–1930 Expedition to East Greenland by
Lauge Koch after Danish mathematician
Niels Erik Nørlund
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His book ''Vorlesungen über Differenzenrechnung'' (1924, reprinted 1954) was the first book on complex analysis, complex ...
(1885–1980) and after the
Alps
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...
, for the mountains form an impressive Alpine landscape.
Norlund had been the director of the
Geodætisk Institut between 1923 and 1955, as well as a member of the 1931–34
Three-year Expedition to East Greenland committee. The name was duly approved, but Norlund requested that it should not be printed on official maps until after his death.
Geography
The Norlund Alps are located east and northeast of the Stordalen valley, southeast of the
Albert Heim Range, and west of
Loch Fyne
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fjord. They stretch in a SE/NW direction in the northern part of
Hudson Land, south and southeast of the terminus of the
Wordie Glacier. The Promenadedal valley, beyond which lies the Albert Heim Range, forms the northern limit of the range on the western side and the slopes of the northeasternmost flank of the range form the southern shore of
Wordie Bay.
Mountains and glaciers
*Agnesbjerg at
*Astrupfjellet; high ridge at
*Devon Hills —or Passage Hills; high mountains at
*Hellandfjellet; ridge at
*Rungstedbjerg at
*Toretind at
None of the glaciers in the Norlund Alps are very big. The A. Schmidt Glacier —also known as Hessbreen, Nippoldt Glacier and Haussman Glacier drain the northern area of the Norlund Alps and flow into Wordie Bay.
Other glaciers in the range are Fellenberg Gletscher or Høygaardbreen and the Rungsted Glacier, flowing south of Rungstedbjerg.
References
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Mountain ranges of Greenland