The Princess Caroline-Mathilde Alps ( da, Prinsesse Caroline Mathilde Alper) are a mountain range system in the

Holm Land Holm Land ( da, Holms Land), sometimes referred to as "Hahn Land", is a peninsula in King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the NE Greenland National Park area. This peninsula was named by the 1906-1908 ...

Peninsula,

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, northeastern

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. Administratively this range is part of the

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zone. The range was named by the 1938–39

Mørkefjord Expedition Mørkefjord, meaning in Danish "The dark fjord," is a fjord in King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. History Mørkefjord was named by the 1906-1908 Denmark expedition, which established a second weather station at Mørkefjord, in order ...

after

Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark (Caroline-Mathilde Louise Dagmar Christine Maud Augusta Ingeborg Thyra Adelheid; 27 April 1912 – 12 December 1995) was a daughter of Prince Harald of Denmark and granddaughter of King Frederick VIII of Denmar ...

(1912-1995), wife of Prince Knud of Denmark (1900-1976), patron of the expedition.

Geography

The Princess Caroline-Mathilde Alps run from north to south across the western half of the Holm Land peninsula. The

Princess Elizabeth Alps The Princess Elizabeth Alps ( da, Prinsesse Elisabeth Alper) is a mountain range in King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. The range was named by Eigil ...

located to the north across the Ingolf Fjord display a similar structure. The range is bound to the north and northwest by the inner

Ingolf Fjord Ingolf Fjord ( da, Ingolfs Fjord), also known as Ingolf Sound, is a fjord of Greenland's northeastern coast in northern King Frederick VIII Land.GoogleEarth The fjord was named by the 1906-1908 Denmark expedition led by Lauge Koch which mapped Gre ...

, to the east by the flatter eastern part of Holm Land, to the west by the

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''(Vandredalen)'' and the Saefaxi River ''(Sæfaxi Elv)'', and to the south by the Marmorvigen and the inner Hekla Sound, the NW branch of the

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. The range has numerous rocky peaks and ridges that are unnamed. The highest point of the Princess Caroline-Mathilde Alps reaches at with an almost as high peak located very close about 5 km to the southeast.

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US Air Force maps display the same highest point reaching and other sources .Peakbagger - Hahn Land High Point, Greenland
/ref> The Princess Caroline-Mathilde Alps lie in a desolate and uninhabited part of Greenland. The nearest settlement is

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, a military outpost with an airfield located about 120 km to the north.

Glaciers

The main glaciers in the Princess Caroline-Mathilde Alps are: * Gaflen Glacier, on the western side. *

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, on the western side. * Spaerre Brae ''(Brede Spærregletscher)'', a large glacier on the northern side. * Tungen Glacier, on the western side.

Climate

The Princess Caroline-Mathilde Alps lie in the high

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zone.

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prevails in the area of the range, the

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in the area being -16° C . The warmest month is July when the average temperature rises to -1° C and the coldest is January with -28° C.

Bibliography

*A. K. Higgins, M. P. Smith, N. J. Soper, A. G. Leslie, J. A. Rasmussen and M. Sønderholm 2000: ''The Neoproterozoic Hekla Sund Basin, eastern North Greenland: a pre-Iapetan extensional sequence thrust across its rift shoulders during the Caledonian orogeny.'' The

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. 2001. *Pedersen, S. A. S., Leslie, A. G. & Craig, L. E. 1995. ''Proterozoic and Caledonian geology of the Prinsesse Caroline Mathilde Alper, eastern North Greenland.'' In: Higgins, A. K. (ed.) ''Express Report Eastern North and North-East Greenland '' 1995.

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(GEUS), Copenhagen, 71–86.

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