Cape Christiansen

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Cape Christiansen
Kap Christiansen
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Cape Christiansen
Coordinates: 83°25′N39°40′W / 83.417°N 39.667°W / 83.417; -39.667
Location Peary Land, Greenland
Offshore water bodies Conger Sound
Lincoln Sea
Weyprecht Fjord

Cape Christiansen (Danish : Kap Christiansen) is a headland in North Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park. [1]

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Cape Christiansen was named after Frederick Thorlip Christiansen (1846 – 1884), Inughuit dogsled driver and guide of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition who died of starvation on April 5, 1884 at Camp Clay. [2]

Geography

Cape Christiansen is a headland located at the northern end of Lockwood Island, on the western side of the mouth of Conger Sound and on the eastern side of Weyprecht Fjord. [3] [4] [5] Near the point there is a cairn that was built by Lieutenant Lockwood in 1882. The cairn was surveyed by Robert Peary in 1900 and by Lauge Koch in 1921. [4]

Cape Kane is the headland on the eastern side of Conger Sound, at the northern end of Roosevelt Land. [3] [1]

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