Cape Steen Bille Kap Steen Bille, Kangeq | |
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 Southeast-Greenland Inuit bidding farewell to Fridtjof Nansen at Kap Steen Bille in 1888. | |
  Cape Steen Bille | |
| Coordinates: 62°0′N42°7′W / 62.000°N 42.117°W | |
| Location | King Frederick VI Coast |
| Offshore water bodies | North Atlantic Ocean |
| Area | |
| • Total | Arctic |
| Elevation | 640 m (2,100 ft) |
Cape Steen Bille (Danish : Kap Steen Bille) or Kap Bille, also known as Kangeq, is a headland in the North Atlantic Ocean, southeast Greenland, Kujalleq municipality. [1]
Cape Steen Bille was named in 1829 by Lieutenant Wilhelm August Graah (1793–1863) after Steen Andersen Bille (1797–1883), Danish Royal Navy vice-admiral and minister for the navy.
Fridtjof Nansen visited the area in 1888 before his crossing of the Greenland ice sheet from the east.
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