Cape Kane

Cape Kane (Danish: Kap Kane) is a headland in North Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park.[2]

Cape Kane
Kap Kane
Cape
Map of part of Ellesmere Island and far Northern Greenland
Map of part of Ellesmere Island and far Northern Greenland
Cape Kane is located in Greenland
Cape Kane
Cape Kane
Coordinates: 83°29′N 39°10′W
LocationPeary Land, Greenland
Offshore water bodiesConger Sound
Lincoln Sea
Hunt Fjord
Elevation650 m (2,130 ft)[1]

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
  1. Greenland Pilot
  2. Nunat Aqqi; Stednavne
  3. The Polar Question — Proceedings - 1885 Vol. 11/4/35
  4. Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 95
  5. Geographical Items on North Greenland - Encyclopedia Arctica 14
  6. North Greenland Glacier Velocities and Calf Ice Production
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