| 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′N21°45′W / 74.233°N 21.750°W Coordinates: 74°14′N21°45′W / 74.233°N 21.750°W |
| Geology | |
| Age of rock | Upper Carboniferous [1] |
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.
Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in Denmark and in the region of Southern Schleswig in northern Germany, where it has minority language status. Also, minor Danish-speaking communities are found in Norway, Sweden, Spain, the United States, Canada, Brazil, and Argentina. Due to immigration and language shift in urban areas, around 15–20% of the population of Greenland speak Danish as their first language.
A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills ranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arisen from the same cause, usually an orogeny. Mountain ranges are formed by a variety of geological processes, but most of the significant ones on Earth are the result of plate tectonics. Mountain ranges are also found on many planetary mass objects in the Solar System and are likely a feature of most terrestrial planets.
Clavering Island is a large island in eastern Greenland off Gael Hamkes Bay, to the south of Wollaston Foreland.
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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]
Lauge Koch was a Danish geologist and Arctic explorer.
