Cape Kane

Cape Kane Kap Kane
Cape
Map of part of Ellesmere Island and far Northern Greenland
Cape Kane
Coordinates: 83°29′N39°10′W / 83.483°N 39.167°W / 83.483; -39.167
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

• Peary Land

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

External links

• Explorers and Travellers Part 14