Faraway How

Faraway How
Highest point
Elevation1,398 m (4,587 ft)[1]
Coordinates74°25′N 23°33′W / 74.417°N 23.550°W / 74.417; -23.550[2]
Geography
LocationKing Christian X Land, Greenland
Climbing
First ascentUnknown

Faraway How is a nunatak in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it falls under the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.

This geographic feature was named by the 1926 Cambridge Expedition to East Greenland led by Sir James Wordie.[3]

Geography

Faraway 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]

1932 map section showing Faraway How and the Wordie Glacier on the left.
Detailed map of the area.

See also

Bibliography

  • 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.

References

  1. ^ a b GoogleEarth
  2. ^ a b "Faraway How". Mapcarta. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
  3. ^ "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 8 July 2016.[permanent dead link‍]


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