Halle Range
The Halle Range or Halle Mountains (Danish: Hallebjergene) 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 | |
Halle Range Location | |
| Country | Greenland |
| Range coordinates | 74°14′N 21°45′W |
| Geology | |
| Age of rock | Upper Carboniferous |
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.
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