Cape Brown ( da, Kap Brown) is a headland in the
Greenland Sea, east
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 ...
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Sermersooq
Sermersooq (, da, sted med meget is, lit=place of much ice) is a municipality in Greenland, formed on 1 January 2009 from five earlier, smaller municipalities. Its administrative seat is the city of Nuuk (formerly called Godthåb), the capital ...
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
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History
This headland was named "Cape Brown" by
William Scoresby
William Scoresby (5 October 178921 March 1857) was an English whaler, Arctic explorer, scientist and clergyman.
Early years
Scoresby was born in the village of Cropton near Pickering south-west of Whitby in Yorkshire. His father, William ...
(1789 – 1857) in 1822 to honour Scottish botanist
Robert Brown (1773–1858).
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A small wintering station known as "Kap Brown Station" was built in 1934 on the eastern shore of nearby Fleming Fjord SW of Cape Brown at the time of the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland
The Three-year Expedition ( da, Treårsekspeditionen) was an exploratory expedition to East Greenland that lasted from 1931 to 1934 financed by the Carlsberg Foundation and the Danish state. The expedition included aerial surveys.
Many geograph ...
.[Spencer Apollonio, ''Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland,'' 2008, p. 192] The names ''Vimmelskaftet'' and ''Flemmingfjordhuset'' were also used for the same station.
Geography
Cape Brown is located in the Greenland Sea south of Cape Biot, off the southern end of Davy Sound
The Davy Sound ( da, Davy Sund) is a sound in King Christian X Land, Northeast Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. History
The sound was named and put on the map by William Scoresby (1789 – 1857 ...
.Jameson Land
Jameson Land is a peninsula in eastern Greenland.
Geography
Jameson Land is bounded to the southwest by Scoresby Sound (the world's largest fjord), to the northwest by the Stauning Alps, to the north by Scoresby Land, to the northeast by the Fle ...
. Rising between the mouth of Fleming Fjord
Fleming Fjord is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland.
Administratively it lies in the Sermersooq Municipality. History
This fjord was named "Fleming Inlet" by British explorer William Scoresby (1789 – 1857) after Scottish scholar ...
to the west and Nathorst Fjord
Alfred Gabriel Nathorst (7 November 1850 – 20 January 1921) was a Swedish Arctic explorer, geologist, and palaeobotanist.
Life
He was born in Väderbrunn in Sweden.
Nathorst's interest in geology was awoken by Charles Lyell’s ‘’P ...
to the east, it is a high conspicuous headland with reddish-brown rocky sides. [''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 118]
See also
*Geography of Greenland
Greenland is located between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Canada and northwest of Iceland. The territory comprises the island of Greenland—the largest island in the world—and more than a hundred other smaller i ...
References
External links
Greenland Pilot - Danish Geodata Agency
Headlands of Greenland
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