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Favre Bjerg is the highest point in Hudson Land in eastern Greenland, within Northeast Greenland National Park. Lying west of the Stordalen valley and the Norðlund Alps, this remote Arctic mountain rises to about 1,900 meters, though Defense Mapping Agency Greenland navigation charts mark it at 1,995 meters, or 6,544 feet. Its name originated during Lauge Koch’s 1936–38 expedition, when Swiss geologist Heinrich Bütler selected it to honor fellow Swiss geologist Jean Alphonse Favre, who lived from 1815 to 1890. The peak remains one of the named high points of this isolated landscape.
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