Cape Kane

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Cape Kane
Kap Kane
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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
Elevation650 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]

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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]

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