Alabama Nunatak
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Prominence615 m (2,018 ft)[1]
| Alabama Nunatak | |
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 ONC map of NE Greenland | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 1,520 m (4,990 ft)[1] |
| Prominence | 615 m (2,018 ft)[1] |
| Coordinates | 78°0′N 24°0′W / 78.000°N 24.000°W[2] |
| Geography | |
  Alabama Nunatak | |
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Alabama Nunatak is a nunatak in the King Frederik VIII Land area of northeastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.
This nunatak was named by Ejnar Mikkelsen after his ship during the 1909-12 Alabama Expedition.[3] Mikkelsen and Iver Iversen went up the Storstrommen to reach the head of the Danmark Fjord, leaving this nunatak on the left in their arduous dogsled journey over the ice.[4]
Few details are known about the circumstances of sighting and mapping of this nunatak, because Mikkelsen's diary, which had been kept in a cache at a rocky islet in Skaer Fjord, was destroyed by a polar bear.[5]
