C._H._Ostenfeld_Nunatak

C. H. Ostenfeld Nunatak

C. H. Ostenfeld Nunatak

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C. H. Ostenfeld Nunatak is a nunatak in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it falls under the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.

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This geographic feature was named by Lauge Koch during his 1929–30 expeditions after Danish botanist Carl Hansen Ostenfeld (1873–1931), author of Flora of Greenland and its origin.[3]

Geography

It is a relatively large nunatak located east of Stenoland between the Wordie Glacier and the Granta Glacier. Its northern end lies 9 km to the east of Faraway How's eastern point.[2]

C. H. Ostenfeld Nunatak is 15.7 km in length and its maximum width is 6.4 km; the highest elevation is located at the western end and is 1,019 metres (3,343 ft) high.[1]

1932 map section showing C. H. Ostenfeld Nunatak and the Wordie Glacier on the left.
Detailed map of the area.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    GoogleEarth
  2. [2]
    "C. H. Ostenfeld Nunatak". Mapcarta. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  3. [3]
    "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 8 July 2016.[permanent dead link]


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