Mount Thor Trivia Questions

Mount Thor is a granite peak, not a volcano. It was formed by glacial erosion and is geologically stable. There are no volcanoes on Baffin Island.

Mount Thor is on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, within the Arctic Circle. It is firmly in North America, not Antarctica.

With a 1,250-meter (4,101-foot) continuous vertical drop, Mount Thor holds the Guinness World Record for the greatest purely vertical drop on Earth.

Mount Thor on Baffin Island has a 4,101-foot vertical drop at an average angle of 105 degrees, making it technically overhanging and steeper than El Capitan's 2,300-foot face.

Mount Thor was first climbed in 1965 by a team led by Pat Baird. The 1953 date is often confused with the first ascent of Mount Everest.

Its record-breaking vertical face makes it a legendary but rarely attempted BASE jumping site. Only a handful of jumps have been successful due to remoteness and wind.

It was actually named after a nearby fjord called Thor Fjord, which itself was likely named after a local Inuit legend or surveyor, not directly the Norse deity.

Auyuittuq National Park, meaning 'land that never melts,' is a remote Arctic park on Baffin Island with a polar bear population that often outnumbers human visitors.