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On September 16th, 2023 at 12:35 UTC, a 25.5 Mm 3 (3.34 × 10 19 cu yd) rockslide occurred on the slope of Dickson Fjord in Northeast Greenland. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The rockslide impacted a gully glacier, leading to a rock and ice avalanche that entered the fjord causing an up to 200 m (660 ft) high tsunami and subsequent waves up to 110 m high, with ...
A 650-foot tsunami in Greenland was the result of melting glacial ice that caused a landslide. The waves it created bounced back and forth for nine days. The mysterious case of a 650-foot tsunami ...
However, in 1930 Gino Watkins, leader of the British Arctic Air Route Expedition, discovered a new mountain range from the air located over 350 km to the northeast of Schweizerland [5] that he named 'New Mountains'. [6] This was the higher Watkins Range with the Gunnbjørnsfjeld, the actual highest summit in Greenland. [7]
After the collapse of the Zachariæ Isstrøm glacier’s ice shelf in 2003, the ice discharge into the ocean doubled, according to the study. Millan said when he visited the glacier in 2016 and ...
The summit of Gunnbjørn Fjeld is the highest point on the Island of Greenland, Kalaallit Nunaat, the Kingdom of Denmark, and the entire Arctic. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [1] of the nation of Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat). Kalaallit Nunaat includes the Island of Greenland and surrounding islands.
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This is a list of mountains in Greenland. List. For each mountain, the municipality in which it is located is given, along with coordinates indicating the approximate ...
Häsi Mountains (Häsi Bjerge), located northwest of Nathorst Land. Haug Range (Hauge Bjerge), located in Hall Land. [16] Heywood Range (Heywood Bjerge), located in Liverpool Land. [2] Hjelm Range (Hjelmbjergene), located on the southern coast of the Gauss Peninsula. [2] J. A. D. Jensen Nunataks near the west coast of Greenland. [17]