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18-511: The range was named during the 1929–1930 Expedition to East Greenland by Lauge Koch after Danish mathematician Niels Erik Nørlund (1885–1980) and after the Alps , for the mountains form an impressive Alpine landscape. Norlund had been the director of the Geodætisk Institut between 1923 and 1955, as well as a member of the 1931–34 Three-year Expedition to East Greenland committee. The name

36-455: A member of several Greenland expeditions, including Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen 's and Alfred Wegener 's (in the latter's expedition (1912-1913) to cross Greenland, he led a sledging party). He received his higher education at the University of Copenhagen , where he began his studies in 1911, in 1920 he received a master's degree , and in 1929 a doctor's degree , having defended a dissertation on

54-404: Is a Chipp Sound that separates Sverdrup Island from smaller Elison Island, but it is located at the other end of Nordenskiöld Fjord, beyond its mouth. In Peary's map Independence Fjord was merely a short bay and further to the east Peary had drawn the coast of hypothetical "Academy Land" slanting southeastwards with the " East Greenland Sea " to the north. In the wake of the tragic outcome of

72-512: Is a peninsula and corrections were made in the maps of northernmost Greenland printed after that date. Not knowing about the non-existence of the Peary Channel beforehand, the leaders of these three expeditions had planned eventually to use the Peary Channel to reach the NW coast of Greenland for their return journey. Since 1892 it had taken a full twenty years after being put on the map to confirm that

90-954: The American Geographical Society in 1924, its Daly Medal in 1930, as well as the Vega medal of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography . In 1927 he was awarded the Patron's Medal of the British Royal Geographical Society for his work in Greenland and the Hans Egede Medal of the Royal Danish Geographical Society . In 1949 he was awarded the Mary Clark Thompson Medal from

108-506: The Denmark expedition to Greenland's Northeast Coast 1906–1908. Robert Peary based his mapping of the area on observations he made in 1892 from Navy Cliff, located north of the Academy Glacier . From his perspective the channel allegedly connected the head of Independence Fjord in the east with the heads of Nordenskiöld Fjord and a parallel and misplaced "Chipp Inlet" in the west. There

126-682: The Geological Institute of Copenhagen University , and Victor Madsen  [ sv ] , head of the Geological Survey of Denmark . Controversy started with a review of the Lauge Koch book Geologie von Grönland (1935) written by ‘the eleven’ and accusing Koch of poor and improper scientific practice. Relating to the years 1921–23 in which Lauge Koch conducted the Bicentenary Jubilee Expedition to North Greenland in

144-514: The National Academy of Sciences . Peary Channel (Greenland) The Peary Channel ( Danish : Peary-kanal ) was a hypothetical sound or marine channel running from east to west separating Peary Land in northernmost Greenland from the mainland further south. The assumed existence of this channel and other errors in Peary's maps reportedly caused the tragic loss of the leading team of

162-502: The Peter Freuchen map of 1912. In 1922 he mapped Hiawatha Glacier , and noted that the glacier tongue extended into Lake Alida (near Foulk Fjord ). In 1938, Lauge Koch found in the mountains west of Jameson Land , near Scoresby Sound , the skeleton of a huge extinct mammal similar to the head of a gigantic animal with huge teeth found by Professor Selim Hassan in 1935 near the pyramid of Chephren . The skeleton found by Koch

180-527: The Albert Heim Range, forms the northern limit of the range on the western side and the slopes of the northeasternmost flank of the range form the southern shore of Wordie Bay . None of the glaciers in the Norlund Alps are very big. The A. Schmidt Glacier —also known as Hessbreen, Nippoldt Glacier and Haussman Glacier drain the northern area of the Norlund Alps and flow into Wordie Bay. Other glaciers in

198-592: The Danish government cut funding in mid-expedition and Koch's career as expedition leader was terminated. The mineral kochite which is found in Mt Hvide Ryg , Werner Bjerge , and the former Greenland county of Tunu was named for Koch in honor of his explorations in the same areas. The coelacanth Laugia from the Early Triassic of Greenland is named in his honor. Koch was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from

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216-490: The Denmark expedition's main team, many scholars were highly critical of Peary's cartographic errors, but Lauge Koch , who made detailed surveys of the area in the 1920s and 30s, took a more lenient view: I would emphasize the high quality of Peary's sketch map, and the justification of his assumption of the insularity of the land he discovered — land which now properly bears his name. In 1907 Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen (1872–1907),

234-579: The ill-fated leader of the Denmark expedition, searched in vain for the Peary Channel and was misled to his death by existing maps. Two years later Ejnar Mikkelsen (1880–1971), leader of the Alabama expedition , assumed that the channel existed, until he found Mylius-Erichsen's report in a cairn at the head of Danmark Fjord , where Mylius-Erichsen had written emphatically that: ... the Peary Channel does not exist. Finally Knud Rasmussen , during his First Thule Expedition , also realized in 1912 that Peary Land

252-520: The range are Fellenberg Gletscher or Høygaardbreen and the Rungsted Glacier, flowing south of Rungstedbjerg. Lauge Koch Lauge Koch (5 July 1892 – 5 June 1964) was a Danish geologist and Arctic explorer . Lauge Koch was born in 1892 to Karl and Elisabeth Koch. His development as a scientist was greatly influenced by his father's second cousin Johan Peter Koch - a polar explorer,

270-555: The topic " Stratigraphy of Greenland". He was the renowned leader of 24 Danish government expeditions to Greenland , and the central character in the Lauge Koch Controversy , an international and intra-national conflict. Beginning in December 1935 a bitter conflict arose between Koch and eleven of the most prominent Danish geologists of the day, including O. B. Bøggild , director of The Mineralogical Museum and professor at

288-525: The year of the bicentennial jubilee of Hans Egede 's landing in Greenland, Koch made a sledge journey along the north coast of Greenland, round Peary Land and back across the Inland Ice. On this journey Koch discovered a depression which in his opinion was the one that Robert Peary in 1892 had mistaken for a channel —the so-called " Peary Channel ". Koch's observations of the interior of Independence Fjord led to considerable cartographic changes compared with

306-573: Was displayed at the museum in Copenhagen . Amongst his other contributions to the sciences, in the mid-1930s Koch established a network of field stations and traveling huts in Central East Greenland. This establishment of a permanent infrastructure in the field caused a change in the whole culture and organization of Danish Arctic exploration. His last expedition was the 1956-58 Expedition to East Greenland in which he used helicopters. But

324-598: Was duly approved, but Norlund requested that it should not be printed on official maps until after his death. The Norlund Alps are located east and northeast of the Stordalen valley, southeast of the Albert Heim Range , and west of Loch Fyne fjord. They stretch in a SE/NW direction in the northern part of Hudson Land , south and southeast of the terminus of the Wordie Glacier . The Promenadedal valley, beyond which lies

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