The H. H. Benedict range is part of the northernmost mountain system in the world.[1] The area where its ridges rise is barren and uninhabited.
History
The mountain chain was named by Robert Peary after Henry H. Benedict (1844–1935), one of the founding members of the Peary Arctic Club in New York.[2] Besides his financial support Mr Benedict had gifted a pianola for the entertainment of the members of the expedition.[3]
Peary saw the range from a distance, but didn't explore it. Aerial surveys begun by Lauge Koch in the 1920s mapped the area and Danish surveyors named some features. Only in 1996 did an expedition climb the highest point of the range.[4][5]
In the same manner as the Roosevelt Range the H. H. Benedict Range is part of the Caledonian orogeny extending eastward from north Ellesmere Island.[9]
Roosevelt Range section of Robert Peary's 1900 explorations map "Polar Regions".