Cape Kane
Cape Kane
Kap Kane | |
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Map of part of Ellesmere Island and far Northern Greenland | |
Cape Kane | |
| Coordinates: 83°29′N 39°10′W / 83.483°N 39.167°W | |
| Location | Peary Land, Greenland |
| Offshore water bodies | Conger Sound Lincoln Sea Hunt Fjord |
| Elevation | 650 m (2,130 ft)[1] |
Cape Kane (Danish: Kap Kane) is a headland in North Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park.[2]
Cape Kane was named after Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane (1820 – 1857) at the time that it was the nearest land to the North Pole that had been put on the map.[3]
Geography
Cape Kane is a rocky headland located 14.5 km (9.0 mi) west of Cape Washington,[4] northeast of Conger Sound and off the western side of the mouth of Hunt Fjord.[5] Hunt Fjord is under the influence of slow-moving glaciers discharging on both sides of Cape Kane that completely fill it and partially clog neighboring Conger Sound as well.[6]
Cape Kane is the westernmost point of the Roosevelt Land Peninsula. Cape Christiansen is the headland on the other side of Conger Sound, at the northern end of Lockwood Island.[4][2]
See also
References
- ^ Greenland Pilot
- ^ a b Nunat Aqqi; Stednavne
- ^ The Polar Question — Proceedings - 1885 Vol. 11/4/35
- ^ a b Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 95
- ^ Geographical Items on North Greenland - Encyclopedia Arctica 14
- ^ North Greenland Glacier Velocities and Calf Ice Production