Ketil (mountain)

Ketil
Uiluit Qaqqaa
Ketil's mighty West Wall
Highest point
Elevation2,010 m (6,590 ft)
ListingList of mountains in Greenland
Coordinates60°24′59″N 44°30′44″W / 60.41639°N 44.51222°W / 60.41639; -44.51222[1]
Geography
Climbing
First ascent1974

The Ketil (Greenlandic: Uiluit Qaqqaa, meaning "Shell Mountain") is a 2,010 m–high mountain in southern Greenland, in the Kujalleq municipality.[2]

Ketil's granite walls are similar to Tiningnertok's (Apostelen Tommelfinger), another massive peak in the east coast.[3]

  1. ^ GoogleEarth
  2. ^ Gazetteer of Greenland Archived 2007-03-10 at the Wayback Machine written by Per Ivar Haug, UBiT (Universitetsbiblioteket i Trondheim), August 2005, ISBN 82-7113-114-1
  3. ^ "Big Walls in Southern Greenland". Big Wall. Retrieved 6 June 2016.