Mount Lugano

Mount Lugano (Danish: Lugano Bjerg) is a mountain in eastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.[3]

Mount Lugano
Mount Lugano
Highest point
Elevation2,194 m (7,198 ft) [1]
Coordinates72°48′N 27°27.1′W [2]
Geography
LocationGletscherland
Climbing
First ascent1934 - Eugen Wegmann and Augusto Gansser

History

This peak was named Monte Lugano, after the town of Lugano in Switzerland, by Swiss geologist Eugen Wegmann (1896 - 1982) at the time of Lauge Koch's 1931-34 Three-year Expedition to East Greenland. Louise Boyd had previously used the temporary names "Scoop Mountain" and "C. Mountain" in her 1931 Greenland expedition.[2]

Mount Lugano was first climbed by Eugen Wegmann, together with fellow Swiss geologist Augusto Gansser (1910 – 2012), on 11 August 1934.[2] According to an interview he gave in 1939 to the magazine Illustrazione Ticinese, Wegmann allegedly was overcome by nostalgia for pleasant Lugano, standing hungry and thirsty in the harsh polar weather at the summit of the mountain. Hence the name.[4]

Geography

Mount Lugano is the highest point of Gletscherland.[1] It is a roughly 2,194 m (7,198 ft) high peak that rises in the northern part of Gletscherland, near the southern shore of Dickson Fjord. The summit of Mount Lugano has a concave shape topped by an ice cap that is apparent when viewed from Bocksrietdal in the west, across the Hisinger Glacier.[2]

Map of Northeastern Greenland

See also

References
  1. Sailing Directions for East Greenland and Iceland, p. 117
  2. "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  3. Google Earth
  4. Lugano Bjerg: il Monte Lugano (in Italian)


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