Norlund Alps

The Norlund Alps (Danish: Nørlund Alper) are a mountain range in King Christian X Land, East Greenland.

[1] The range was named during the 1929–1930 Expedition to East Greenland by Lauge Koch after Danish mathematician Niels Erik Nørlund (1885–1980) and after the Alps, for the mountains form an impressive Alpine landscape.

[4] Norlund had been the director of the Geodætisk Institut between 1923 and 1955, as well as a member of the 1931–34 Three-year Expedition to East Greenland committee.

[4] The Norlund Alps are located east and northeast of the Stordalen valley, southeast of the Albert Heim Range, and west of Loch Fyne fjord.

They stretch in a SE/NW direction in the northern part of Hudson Land, south and southeast of the terminus of the Wordie Glacier.

Map section with the range in the lower left corner.
East Greenland Terra/MODIS satellite image