Faraway How is a nunatak in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it falls under the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.
| Faraway How | |
|---|---|
  Faraway How | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 1,398 m (4,587 ft)[1] |
| Coordinates | 74°25′N 23°33′W / 74.417°N 23.550°W[2] |
| Geography | |
| Location | King Christian X Land, Greenland |
| Climbing | |
| First ascent | Unknown |
This geographic feature was named by the 1926 Cambridge Expedition to East Greenland led by Sir James Wordie.[3]
Geography
editFaraway How is located in the Wordie Glacier north of Steno Land and 9 km to the west of C. H. Ostenfeld Nunatak's northern end.[2]
Faraway How is 7.8 km in length and its maximum width is 3.2 km; the highest elevation is located at the western end and is 1,398 metres (4,587 ft) high.[1]
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See also
editBibliography
edit- Wordie, J. M.; Manley, G.; White, P. F.; Johnson, D. McI. (1927). "The Cambridge Expedition to East Greenland in 1926". The Geographical Journal. 70 (3): 225–265. doi:10.2307/1781943. JSTOR 1781943.225-265&rft.date=1927&rft_id=info:doi/10.2307/1781943&rft_id=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1781943#id-name=JSTOR&rft.aulast=Wordie&rft.aufirst=J. M.&rft.au=Manley, G.&rft.au=White, P. F.&rft.au=Johnson, D. McI.&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Faraway How" class="Z3988">
References
edit- ^ a b GoogleEarth
- ^ a b "Faraway How". Mapcarta. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
- ^ "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 8 July 2016.[permanent dead link]
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