Gunnbjørn Fjeld

Gunnbjørn Fjeld, in Greenland’s remote Watkins Range north of the Arctic Circle, is the territory’s highest mountain and the highest point in North America not on the mainland. Its summit is a nunatak rising through glacial ice in one of the Arctic’s least inhabited mountain regions. Often listed at 3,700 metres, it exceeds the other high peaks of the range and ranks ninth worldwide in topographic isolation. Named for Gunnbjörn Ulfsson, it was first recorded climbed on 16 August 1935 by Augustine Courtauld, Jack Longland, Ebbe Munck, and Lawrence Wager. Its extreme isolation makes access difficult and ascents uncommon.

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