Cape_Christiansen

Cape Christiansen

Cape Christiansen

Headland in Greenland

Cape Christiansen (Danish: Kap Christiansen) is a headland in North Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park.[1]

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Cape Christiansen was named after Frederick Thorlip Christiansen (1846 – 1884), Inughuit dogsled driver and guide of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition who died of starvation on April 5, 1884 at Camp Clay.[2]

Geography

Cape Christiansen is a headland located at the northern end of Lockwood Island, on the western side of the mouth of Conger Sound and on the eastern side of Weyprecht Fjord.[3][4][5] Near the point there is a cairn that was built by Lieutenant Lockwood in 1882. The cairn was surveyed by Robert Peary in 1900 and by Lauge Koch in 1921.[4]

Cape Kane is the headland on the eastern side of Conger Sound, at the northern end of Roosevelt Land.[3][1]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Nunat Aqqi; Stednavne
  2. [2]
    Meet the Explorers — Fort Conger
  3. [3]
    Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 95
  4. [4]
    Greenland Pilot
  5. [5]
    Geographical Items on North Greenland - Encyclopedia Arctica 14
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