Revaltoppe is one of the highest mountains in Queen Louise Land, NE Greenland. The peak is located in the King Frederick VIII Land area of northeastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.

Revaltoppe
Queen Louise Land and neighbouring areas
Highest point
Elevation	2,317 m (7,602 ft)[1]
Listing	North America isolated peaks List of the major 100-kilometer summits of North America
Coordinates	76°39′41″N 25°42′28″W[1]
Geography
Revaltoppe Queen Louise Land, Greenland

This peak was named after Reval, the historical name of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, where according to a legend, the Dannebrog (flag of Denmark) is said to have dropped from the sky during a battle between the Danes and the Estonians in 1219.[2]

Geography

Revaltoppe is the highest peak in a group of nunataks[3] to the west of Dannebrogsfjeldene, at the southwestern end of Queen Louise Land (Danish: Dronning Louise Land).[4] The nunatak group was named Reval Toppene[3] or Revaltoppene by J.P. Koch’s 1912–13 Danish Expedition to Queen Louise Land.[2]

Revaltoppe is a 2,317.5-metre-high (7,603 ft) peak. This mountain is marked as a 7,999-foot-high (2,438 m) peak in the Defense Mapping Agency Greenland Navigation charts.[5]

See also

• Gefiontinde, Queen Louise Land's highest point
• List of mountain peaks of Greenland
• List of mountains in Greenland
• List of Nunataks#Greenland

References

External links

• Reval Toppen, Greenland - Peakbagger
• Ice recession in Dronning Louise Land, north-east Greenland

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