| Payer Peak | |
|---|---|
| Payer Tinde, Payers Fjeld | |
  Payer Peak 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]
- ^ a b Google Earth
- ^ a b "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
- ^ "Payer Tinde". Mapcarta. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
- ^ "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. Retrieved 26 June 2016.