Ostenfeld Land

Ostenfeld Land

C. H. Ostenfeld Nunatak is located in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Nunataks are the tops of mountains, protruding from the ice fields and glaciers covering most of the mountain. Often, they form natural pyramids. Isolated nunataks are also referred to as glacial islands, and smaller nunataks that have been rounded by glacial action may be referred to as rognons. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. This geographic feature was named after the Danish botanist Carlsen Ostenfeld, author of The Flora of Greenland and its Origin, when Lauge Koch explored the area in 1929-30. Located east of Stenoland between Wordie and Granta glaciers, it is a relatively large nunatak. Its northern end is 9 km east of the eastern point of Faraway How. The nunatak is 15.7 km long and 6.4 km wide, with the highest point at the western end at 1,019 meters.