Niviarsiat
Niviarsiat is a mountain in the Kujalleq municipality, southern Greenland.
Geography
This mountain is a 1,300 m high summit with multiple peaks rising to the northeast of the Kiattuut Sermiat glacier.
Niviarsiat is located near the southern end of the Greenland ice sheet and is conspicuous.
History
Wilhelm August Graah during his 1829 expedition, thought that he could see the Niviarsiat peaks from a hilltop of Griffenfeldt Island in the eastern coast of Greenland:
They were probably, the tops of Niviarsiet, or The Maidens, in the district of Juliana's Hope.
Despite the distance across the ice sheet, other authors regard Graah's conclusion as correct.
See also
References
- ^ GoogleEarth
- ^ "Niviarsiat". Mapcarta. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
- ^ "Bulletin 21, 2010 - GEUS" (PDF). Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
- ^ Daniel Bruun, Icelandic Colonization of Greenland, p. 202. Full text of "Meddelelser om Grønland" - Internet Archive
- ^ W.A. Graah, Narrative of an Expedition to the East Coast of Greenland, London, 1837 p. 85
- ^ James Nicol, An Historical and Descriptive Account of Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands, p. 228
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