Pic de Gerlache
Highest point
Elevation912 m (2,992 ft)[1]
Coordinates78°36′3″N 21°27′7″W / 78.60083°N 21.45194°W / 78.60083; -21.45194[1]
Geography
LocationDuke of Orleans Land,
Greenland
Climbing
First ascentUnknown

Pic de Gerlache is a mountain in King Frederick VIII Land, NE Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.

History

This nunatak was named in 1905 by the Duke of Orléans during his Arctic Expedition on ship Belgica, when he explored parts of the northeastern coast of Greenland. He named it after Belgian explorer Adrien de Gerlache (1866–1934).[2]

Although this peak was an important landmark for the first explorers of the area, the 1906–08 Danmark Expedition was unable to identify the original peak. Since the expedition members considered that the name should be preserved, it was placed on a conspicuous 912 m (2,992 ft) mountain rising on the north side of Gammel Hellerup Glacier.[3]

A few years later, Ejnar Mikkelsen described this mountain as a pyramid during the 1909-12 Alabama Expedition:

Fifty miles or more away we can see the steep slopes of Lambert Land, while behind us the pyramid of the Pic de Gerlache and the steep peaks of the other nunataks rise sharply above the inland ice.[4]

Geography

Pic de Gerlache is located in Norre Biland, the northern section of Duke of Orleans Land.[5] It rises from a nunatak a few kilometers inland in the central zone of Jokel Bay.[1] On some maps the name is misplaced westwards to a slightly higher but less prominent nunatak peak.[3]

Map of Northeastern Greenland.

See also

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 3 GoogleEarth
  2. ↑ Barr, William (2010). "The Arctic voyages of Louis-Philippe-Robert, Duc d'Orléans". Polar Record. 46 (1): 21–43. doi:10.1017/S0032247409008377. S2CID 129100092.
  3. 1 2 Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
  4. ↑ Spencer Apollonio, Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland, 2008; p. 125
  5. ↑ "Pic de Gerlache". GeoHack. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
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