Cape Bridgman ( da, Kap Bridgman) is a headland in the
Wandel Sea
The Wandel Sea ( da, Wandelhavet; also known as McKinley Sea) is a body of water in the Arctic Ocean, stretching from northeast of Greenland to Svalbard. It is obstructed by ice most of the year.
This sea is named after Danish polar explorer ...
,
Arctic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans. It spans an area of approximately and is known as the coldest of all the oceans. The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) recognizes it as an ocean, a ...
, northeast
Greenland
Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland i ...
.
The cape was named by
Robert Peary after
Herbert L. Bridgman, one of the members of the
Peary Arctic Club in
New York.
Geography
Cape Bridgman is located on the northern side of the mouth of
Frederick E. Hyde Fjord ,
Peary Land
Peary Land is a peninsula in northern Greenland, extending into the Arctic Ocean. It reaches from Victoria Fjord in the west to Independence Fjord in the south and southeast, and to the Arctic Ocean in the north, with Cape Morris Jesup, the nort ...
.
Cape John Flagler is the headland on the southern side of the fjord entrance.
Administratively it is part of the
Northeast Greenland National Park.
In 1900 this headland was
Robert Peary's easternmost accurate geographic exploration in the north of Greenland, for further south he encountered fog. In 1907 it became an important landmark for the
Denmark expedition which mapped for the first time the unknown area to the south and southeast of the cape, as well as part of the
Daly Range
The Daly Range or Daly Mountains ( da, Daly Bjerge) is a mountain range in Peary Land, Northern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.
It forms the eastern end of the northernmost mountain range ...
, rising to the west above the plain.
[Spencer Apollonio, ''Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland,'' 2008 p. 101]
References
External links
Kap Bridgman, Greenland - Geographical Names
Bridgman
Peary Land
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