Cape Nansen

Cape Nansen (Danish: Kap Nansen) is a headland in the Greenland Sea, east Greenland, Sermersooq municipality. This cape is named after Fridtjof Nansen. Cape Nansen is an important geographical landmark.

Cape Nansen
Kap Nansen
LocationSermersooq, Greenland
Coordinates68°13′45″N 29°25′30″W
Offshore water bodiesGreenland Sea
AreaArctic

Geography

Cape Nansen is located to the northeast of the mouth of the Nansen Fjord in an indented area of the eastern Greenland coast where there is a succession of headlands with active glaciers in between.[1] The cape lies 15 km to the east-northeast of the mighty Cape J.A.D. Jensen on Sokongen Island[2]

This headland has been defined by the International Hydrographic Organization as the Southwest limit of the Greenland Sea, which is a line joining Cape Nansen with Straumnes, Iceland, the NW point of Iceland.[3]

Map of Greenland section.
gollark: ÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆAAAAAWHY WON'T MY WEBSOCKETS CONNECT
gollark: ···
gollark: No, osmarks internet radio™.
gollark: If you access it in your browser directly there might be problems due to caching I can't disable right now.
gollark: I thought you managed to use your 1337 h4xx0r skills to find it anyway?

References

  1. Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 110
  2. "Kap Nansen". Mapcarta. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  3. "Limits of Oceans and Seas, 3rd edition". International Hydrographic Organization. 1953. Missing or empty |url= (help)
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.