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Favre Bjerg (Danish: Favres Bjerg)[2] is a mountain in eastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.[3]

Favre Bjerg
Favre Bjerg Hudson Land, Greenland
Highest point
Elevation	1,900 m (6,200 ft)[1]
Coordinates	73°56.3′N 23°17.7′W[1]
Geography
Location	Hudson Land, Greenland

This peak was named at the time of Lauge Koch’s 1936–38 expedition after Swiss geologist Jean Alphonse Favre (1815–1890). The name was chosen by Heinrich Bütler (1893–1983), another Swiss geologist who worked for many years with Lauge Koch in his East Greenland expeditions.[1]

Geography

Favre Bjerg is a roughly 1,900 m (6,200 ft) high peak that rises in the northern part of central Hudson Land, west of the Stordalen valley and the Norlund Alps.[3] It is the highest point of Hudson Land.[4] This mountain is marked as a 6,544-foot-high (1,995 m) peak in the Defense Mapping Agency Greenland Navigation charts.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• List of mountains in Greenland

References

External links

• Geographical Names

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