The Halle Range or Halle Mountains (Danish: Hallebjergene)[2] is a mountain range in Clavering Island, King Christian X Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.

Halle Range
Hallebjergene
Map of Clavering Island (Eskimonaes) and neighbouring areas
Highest point
Peak	Bramsen Bjerg
Elevation	1,272 m (4,173 ft)
Dimensions
Length	20 km (12 mi) NW/SE
Width	15 km (9.3 mi) NE/SW
Area	300 km2 (120 sq mi)
Geography
Location
Country	Greenland
Range coordinates	74°14′N 21°45′W
Geology
Age of rock	Upper Carboniferous[1]

The range was named by Lauge Koch during his 1929–30 expedition after Thore Gustav Halle (1884–1964), a professor at the University of Stockholm who had worked on the plant samples brought by the expedition. Formerly it had been also known as Joh. H. Andresenfjellet.[3]

Geography

The Halle Range is an up to 1200 m high little glaciated mountain massif located in the southwest part of Clavering Island (Clavering Ø). Its average elevation is 912 m and the highest point of the range is 1272 m high Bramsen Bjerg. The Vildbækdalen is a valley in the heart of the range. The area of the Halle mountains is uninhabited.[4]

Mountains

See also

• List of mountain ranges of Greenland

References

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