Cape Melville Nallortup Nuua | |
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  Cape Melville | |
| Coordinates: 76°2′53″N64°2′40″W / 76.04806°N 64.04444°W Coordinates: 76°2′53″N64°2′40″W / 76.04806°N 64.04444°W | |
| Location | Avannaata, Greenland |
| Offshore water bodies | Baffin Bay |
| Area | |
| • Total | Arctic |
| Elevation | 275 m (902 ft) |
Cape Melville (Danish : Kap Melville; Greenlandic : Nallortup Nuua) is a headland in the Avannaata municipality, NW Greenland. [1]
Cape Melville is located at the eastern end of Meteor Bay. [2]
The cape lies at the northern limits of Melville Bay to the east of Cape York. A chain of small coastal islands stretches between the two capes, the largest of which is Meteorite Island. [3]
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Cape York may refer to:
Cape Farewell is a headland on the southern shore of Egger Island, Nunap Isua Archipelago, Greenland. As the southernmost point of the country, it is one of the important landmarks of Greenland.
Melville may refer to:
The Cape York meteorite, also known as the Innaanganeq meteorite, is one of the largest known iron meteorites, classified as a medium octahedrite in chemical group IIIAB. In addition to many small fragments, at least eight large fragments with a total mass of 58 tons have been recovered, the largest weighing 31 tonnes. The meteorite is loosely named after the location where the largest fragment was found: 23 miles (37 km) east of Cape York, in Savissivik, Meteorite Island, Greenland.
Cape York is a cape on the northwestern coast of Greenland, in northern Baffin Bay.
Cape Alexander is a headland in the Baffin Bay, northwest Greenland, Avannaata municipality. It is one of the important landmarks of Greenland.
Nuussuaq, formerly Kraulshavn, is a settlement in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. It is the only mainland settlement in the Upernavik Archipelago, located near the western tip of the Nuussuaq Peninsula, on the northern coast of Sugar Loaf Bay, an indentation of Baffin Bay.
Savissivik or Havighivik (Inuktun) is a settlement in the Avannaata municipality in northern Greenland. Located on Meteorite Island, off the northern shores of Melville Bay, the settlement had 55 inhabitants in 2020.
Melville Bay, is a large bay off the coast of northwestern Greenland. Located to the north of the Upernavik Archipelago, it opens to the south-west into Baffin Bay. Its Kalaallisut name, Qimusseriarsuaq, means "the great dog sledding place".
Nuussuaq Peninsula is a mainland peninsula in northwestern Greenland, located at the northern end of Upernavik Archipelago, approximately 70 km (43 mi) to the south of Melville Bay. It is much smaller than its namesake in western Greenland.
Kiatassuaq Island is an uninhabited island in the northern Upernavik Archipelago in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. It marks the southern border of Melville Bay.
Wilcox Head is a cape in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland.
Inussulik Bay is a bay in the Upernavik Archipelago in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland.
Nuussuup Nuua is a cape in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland.
Qeqertarsuaq, also known as Qeqertaq meaning just "Island", is an island in Avannaata municipality, near Upernavik, in northwestern Greenland. It is located in the Upernavik Archipelago in the Melville Bay of the Baffin Bay.
Meteorite Island is an island in Baffin Bay, in Avannaata municipality, off NW Greenland.
Cape Brewster is a headland in the Greenland Sea, east Greenland, Sermersooq municipality.
Cape Murdoch is a headland in
Cape James Hill is a headland in the Wandel Sea, Arctic Ocean, northeast Greenland.
Cape Harald Moltke is a headland in Peary Land, North Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.
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