Revaltoppe is one of the highest mountains in Queen Louise Land, NE Greenland. The peak is located in the King Frederick VIII Land area of northeastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.
This peak was named by J.P. Koch's 1912–13 Danish Expedition to Queen Louise Land after Reval, the historical name of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, where according to a legend, the Dannebrog (flag of Denmark) is said to have dropped from the sky during a battle between the Danes and the Estonians in 1219.
Geography Revaltoppe is the highest peak in a group of nunataks to the west of Dannebrogsfjeldene, at the southwestern end of Queen Louise Land ().GEUS Map - Northern East Greenland; Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 21 Map 4 - 1:1 000 000 The nunatak group was named Reval Toppene or Revaltoppene by J.P. Koch’s 1912–13 Danish Expedition to Queen Louise Land.
Revaltoppe is a peak. This mountain is marked as a peak in the Defense Mapping Agency Greenland Navigation charts.1:1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart, Sheet B-9
See also Gefiontinde, Queen Louise Land's highest point List of mountain peaks of Greenland List of mountains in Greenland List of Nunataks#Greenland
References
External links Reval Toppen, Greenland - Peakbagger Ice recession in Dronning Louise Land, north-east Greenland