Borgtinderne , meaning ' Castle Pinnacles' in the Danish language , is a mountain range in King Christian IX Land , eastern Greenland . Administratively this range is part of the Sermersooq Municipality.
4-667: The Borgtinderne is a long nunatak with high mountains. It is located east of the Ejnar Mikkelsen Range , between the Borggraven Glacier on its eastern and the Kronborg Glacier on its western side. The southern end of the range reaches the coast. The area of the Borgtinderne is uninhabited. The highest point is Borgetinde, a mountain which has a wide reputation among alpinists and which
8-502: Is the easternmost 3,000 m (9,800 ft) summit of Greenland and greater North America. Tundra climate prevails in the region. The average annual temperature in the area of the range is -12 °C. The warmest month is July when the average temperature reaches 0 °C and the coldest is February when the temperature sinks to -21 °C. This Greenland location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Nunatak A nunatak (from Inuit nunataq )
12-473: Is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge. They often form natural pyramidal peaks . Isolated nunataks are also called glacial islands, and smaller nunataks rounded by glacial action may be referred to as rognons . The word is of Greenlandic origin and has been used in English since the 1870s. The term nunatak
16-547: Is typically used in areas where a permanent ice sheet is present and the ridge protrudes above the sheet. Nunataks present readily identifiable landmark reference points in glaciers or ice caps and are often named. While some are isolated, they can also form dense clusters, such as Queen Louise Land in Greenland. Nunataks are generally angular and jagged, hampering the formation of glacial ice on their tops, although snow can accumulate on them. This can contrast strongly with
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