{{Short description|Mountain range in Greenland}} {{Infobox mountain range | name=Princess Elizabeth Alps | other_name=''Prinsesse Elisabeth Alper'' | image=1024 Nordpolausflug- Nordostgrönland-05052012183.jpg | image_size= | image_caption=View of the Elephant foot Glacier at Romer Lake with the Princess Elizabeth Alps in the background | country=Greenland | state= | area= | state_type= | length_km=50 | length_orientation=NNE/SSW | width_km = 27 | width_orientation=ESE/WSW | highest= | elevation_m=1466.4 | range_coordinates = {{coord|80|48|N|18|48|W|type:mountain_region:GL_dim:200000|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | coordinates = | geology=Fold belt gneiss | geology1= | age=Caledonian orogeny<ref>[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013AGUFM.C33B0736W Willis, M. J.; Juntunen, T.; Porter, C. C.; Morin, P. J., ''High-resolution digital elevation models of the Flade Iceblink feature in NE Greenland'']</ref> | map = Greenland | region = | map_caption = Location | label_position = | map_size= }}

The '''Princess Elizabeth Alps''' ({{langx|da|Prinsesse Elisabeth Alper}}) is a mountain range in King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.

The range was named by Eigil Nielsen during the 1938–39 Mørkefjord Expedition after Princess Elisabeth of Denmark (1935–2018), daughter of Prince Knud.<ref name="cat">{{cite web | title = Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland | publisher = Geological Survey of Denmark | url = http://www.geus.dk/publications/bull/nr21/nr21_p117-368.pdf3 | accessdate = 18 June 2016 | archive-date = 13 May 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200513044819/http://www.geus.dk/publications/bull/nr21/nr21_p117-368.pdf3 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

==Geography== The Princess Elizabeth Alps run roughly from north to south across the western half of the large Crown Prince Christian Land peninsula with an average elevation of {{convert|1058|m|abbr=on}}.

The range begins abruptly at the Ingolf Fjord in the south, with the mountains rising steeply from the shore. Towards the northern end the elevations decrease until the range becomes a chain of small nunataks barely rising above the surrounding ice sheet.<ref name="GE">Google Earth</ref>

The area of the range is bounded in the north by the Flade Isblink, a massive ice sheet, to the west by the Nunataami Elv valley, to the south by the Ingolf Fjord, and to the east by the Tobias Glacier, beyond which lies Amdrup Land.<ref name="mapcartaPrinsesse Elisabeth">{{cite web|url=http://mapcarta.com/17866118|title=Prinsesse Elisabeth Alper|work=Mapcarta|accessdate=5 August 2016}}</ref> The Princess Caroline-Mathilde Alps located to the south in Holm Land across the fjord display a similar structure.<ref name=GE/>

The Princess Elizabeth Alps lie in a desolate and uninhabited part of Greenland. The nearest settlement is Nord, a military outpost with an airfield located about 60&nbsp;km to the NNE of the northern end.<ref name="GE"/> {| |- valign="top" |[[File:North Greenland section-txu-pclmaps-oclc-8322829 a 1.jpg|thumb|300px|Operational Navigation Chart of NE Greenland.]] |}

===Mountains and glaciers=== The range is an up to {{convert|1466.4|m|abbr=on}} high largely glaciated mountain massif. The main summits are: *HP (1,466 m); highest peak at {{coord|80|44|17|N|18|47|46|W|}}<ref name=GE/> *Peak (1,446 m) at {{coord|80|40|11|N|19|5|3|W|}}<ref name=GE/> *Peak (1,440.7 m) at {{coord|80|43|54|N|18|35|39|W|}}<ref name=GE/> *Peak (1,422 m) at {{coord|80|45|50|N|18|44|36|W|}}<ref name=GE/> *Peak (1,330 m) at {{coord|80|44|48|N|18|10|41|W|}}<ref name=GE/> *Peak (1,327.7 m) at {{coord|80|42|4|N|18|14|14|W|}}<ref name=GE/> *Peak (1,326.8 m) at {{coord|80|48|40|N|18|30|52|W|}}<ref name=GE/> *Peak (1,313 m) at {{coord|80|50|34|N|18|19|20|W|}}<ref name=GE/>

The Bjørne Glacier runs southwards, draining the area of the Princess Elisabeth Alps. Other important glaciers in the range are the Smalle Spaerre Glacier and the Hjørne Glacier.

==Climate== The Princess Elizabeth Alps lie in the high Arctic zone. Tundra climate prevails in the area of the range, the average annual temperature in the area being -16&nbsp;°C . The warmest month is July when the average temperature rises to 0&nbsp;°C and the coldest is January with -26&nbsp;°C.<ref name = "nasa">{{cite web|url= http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/dataset_index.php|title= NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index|work= NASA|accessdate= 28 June 2016|archive-date= 11 May 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200511075542/https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/dataset_index.php|url-status= dead}}</ref>

==See also== *List of mountain ranges of Greenland

==References== {{Reflist|30em}}

==External links== *[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00300-009-0623-4 Status of the endangered ivory gull, Pagophila eburnea, in Greenland] *[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2010JF001686/pdf InSAR observations of ice elevation and velocity fluctuations at the Flade Isblink ice cap, eastern North Greenland]

Category:Mountain ranges of Greenland

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