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Pinnacle in the northwestern ridge of Qalorujoorneq |
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| Elevation | 676 m (2,218 ft) [1] |
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Qalorujoorneq
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| Location | Kulusuk Island, Greenland |
Qalorujoorneq is a 676 metres (2,218 ft) high[2] mountain in southeastern Greenland, located in the eastern part of Kulusuk Island, to the southeast of the Kulusuk Airport. It is the highest mountain on the island.
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To the northeast and to the east, Qalorujoorneq walls fall directly into the North Atlantic.[3] The southern wall is the smallest, and the easiest to ascend. Its western wall is the widest, with a prominent pillar in the center falling into a post-glacial cirque filled by the Qalorujoornep Tasia lake.
Qalorujoorneq has three ridges. Its southeastern ridge extends to the southeastern promontory on the island, with two distinct peaks: Saajat at 603 metres (1,978 ft) and Kangeq at 280 metres (919 ft).[1]
The southwestern ridge is the easiest route to the summit, petering out with several rounded trabants in its lower reaches to the south and southwest of the lake.[3]
The northwestern ridge falls from the nearly flat summit ridge with a series of trabants, the first and highest a rocky pinnacle, the other progressively lower and rounder, extending into the interior of the island above the central reservoir lake.