Nordkrone (, meaning "Northern Crown") is a mountainous area in Peary Land, Northern Greenland.Nunat Aqqi; Stednavne Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.
Fossils dating back to the Silurian have been found in the area of the range. They belong to the Nordkronen Formation of the Peary Land Group.H.P. Trettin (ed.), Geology of the Innuitian Orogen and Arctic Platform of Canada and Greenland. p. 208Geological map of Greenland
History The mountain was mapped by Danish Arctic explorer Lauge Koch during his Cartographic Air Expedition of 1938. He named it after the "North Crown", which symbolically crowns the world's northernmost country. The most conspicuous peak in the area had been previously named by Robert Peary as Mount Wistar (Wistars Fjeld). In 1950 Eigil Knuth, the leader of the Danish Peary Land Expedition, asserted that the mountain was part of Nordkrone, and described it as "the strangest and proudest peak" of Peary Land:
Geography Nordkrone is located in central Peary Land, to the south of Frederick E. Hyde Fjord, describing an arc to the east and northwest of the head of the Freja Fjord, around the Balder Glacier flowing from the south. The Børglum River (Børglum Elv) flows southward from Nordkrone to Brønlund Fjord. Nordkrone is variously described as a plateauProstar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 130 and as a ridge. The surface of Nordkrone is plateau-like with ridges attaining high elevations and an ice cap out of which flow many glaciers. Its slopes are intersected by deep ravines with steep sides.
With a height of , Mt Wistar is the highest elevation of Peary Land to the south of Frederick E. Hyde Fjord.Spencer Apollonio, Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland, 2008 p. 278Nordkronen, Greenland - Peakbagger It rises at the northwestern end, west of the Balder Glacier. Other elevations within Nordkrone range from about to more than .Jorgen Bronlunds Fjord, Army Map Service, United States Army Corps of Engineers, Greenland 1:250,000Geografisk Tidsskrift, Bind 50 (1950) Dansk Pearyland Ekspedition. Sidste års meteorologi og topografisk overblik
See also List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Greenland List of mountains in Greenland List of rivers of Greenland Mara Mountain
Bibliography Greenland geology and selected mineral occurrences - GEUS
References
External links Greenland - Jeff Shea