Mount Clarence Wyckoff
Mountain in Peary Land, Greenland
Mount Clarence Wyckoff
Peary Land, Greenland
Mount Clarence Wyckoff (Danish: Clarence Wyckoff Fjeld or Clarence Wyckoff Bjerg)[4] is a mountain in Peary Land, Northern Greenland. Administratively the mountain belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park.[3]
The peak was named after Clarence F. Wyckoff, one of the members of the Peary Arctic Club in New York.[5]
The Wyckoff Bjerg Formation is named after the mountain. Fossils dating back to the Cambrian have been found in it.[6][7]
Geography
Mount Clarence Wyckoff is located to the north of Herlufsholm Strand, 18.5 kilometres (11 mi) northwest of Cape Henry Parish.[8] Rising above the eastern shore of Hellefisk Fjord, the 853 metres (2,799 ft) high peak is the highest in the coastal area.[1] The same mountain is mentioned as a 951 metres (3,120 ft) high peak with a prominence of 290 m (950 ft) according to other sources.[2]
See also
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Greenland
- List of mountains in Greenland
- Herluf Trolle Land
References
- ^ a b PGC MapKap Eiler Rasmussen - 405 - GRL REF-MT0503-042
- ^ a b "Clarence Wyckoff Fjeld, Greenland". Peakery. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
- ^ a b Google Maps
- ^ Nunat Aqqi; Stednavne
- ^ XIV. Der Peary Arctic Club - Projekt Gutenberg
- ^ H.P. Trettin (ed.), Geology of the Innuitian Orogen and Arctic Platform of Canada and Greenland. p. 208
- ^ Geological map of Greenland
- ^ Greenland Pilot
External links
- Boreal Ties: Part II
- Geological and structural map of eastern Peary Land
