Uummannaq is a 1170 metres (3,839 ft) high, prominent, isolated mountain

Mountain

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 in northwestern Greenland

Greenland

Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe for...

, located on the small Uummannaq Island

Uummannaq Island

Uummannaq Island is a small island in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland. Located in the south-central part of the Uummannaq Fjord, it is home to the most prominent mountain on the Arctic coast of western Greenland, and to Uummannaq, the largest town north of Ilulissat.The...

 in the central part of the Uummannaq Fjord

Uummannaq Fjord

Uummannaq Fjord is a large fjord system in the northern part of western Greenland, the largest after Kangertittivaq fjord in eastern Greenland...

. It entirely dominates the landscape of the island, its base occupying its entire northern half. Formed of granite

Granite

Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...

 and basement gneiss

Gneiss

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, it is the most prominent mountain in the Arctic

Arctic

The Arctic is a region located at the northern-most part of the Earth. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Russia, Greenland, the United States, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. The Arctic region consists of a vast, ice-covered ocean, surrounded by treeless permafrost...

 part of the west coast of Greenland. The mountain is a landmark of Greenland and a tourist magnet, often reproduced in art.

Topography

The mountain has two summits of similar height (the eastern summit being the higher), hence the name Uummannaq, Greenlandic for heart-shaped. Deep chimneys fall to the south and the north from the col

Mountain pass

A mountain pass is a route through a mountain range or over a ridge. If following the lowest possible route, a pass is locally the highest point on that route...

 between the western and eastern summits.

Its eastern wall has no significant depressions, falling in a uniform cliff into Assorput Strait

Assorput Strait

Assorput Strait is a strait in the Uummannaq Fjord system in northwestern Greenland. It separates Uummannaq Island in the west from Salliaruseq Island in the east...

 between Uummannaq Island and Salliaruseq Island

Salliaruseq Island

Salliaruseq Island is an uninhabited island in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland. At , it is one of the larger islands in the Uummannaq Fjord system, located in its central part due east of Uummannaq Island...

.

There are several trabant bastions in the southeastern pillar, to the northeast of the black bands in the southern wall.

Ascent

Due to its remote location and considerable difficulty, few mountaineers

Mountaineering

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have attempted the ascent. Only two known ascents had been done before 1992.