Payer Peak | |
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Payer Tinde, Payers Fjeld | |
Suess Land, NE Greenland | |
Highest point | |
Elevation | 1,979 m (6,493 ft)[1] |
Listing | |
Coordinates | 73°8′44″N 26°23′25″W / 73.14556°N 26.39028°W[1] |
Geography | |
Location | Suess Land, NE Greenland |
Climbing | |
First ascent | 1870[2] |
Payer Peak, (Danish: Payer Tinde[3] or Payers Fjeld)[2] is a mountain in King Christian X Land, Northeast Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.
The region around Payer Peak is uninhabited. This mountain is located in the high Arctic zone, where Polar climate prevails. The average annual temperature in the area is −17 °C. The warmest month is June when the average temperature rises to −2 °C and the coldest is November with −23 °C.[4]