Eagle Mountain and Eagle Mountain Glacier from the east. Eagle Mountain is on the left, about sixteen kilometers away. When Jørgen Schythe and his party approached from the south in 1840, they saw

a large, flat, dazzling mass of snow or ice from which a dark cone-shaped mountain jutted, like a rock from a sea congealed to ice. This cone is called Eagle Mountain and gives the name Eagle Mountain Glacier to the surrounding ice mass, an enormous glacial tongue which the high, perpetually snow-covered Temple Glacier thrusts down toward the lowlands. ("En Fjeldreise," p. 346)

Source: Photo Dick Ringler