Cape Christiansen ( da, Kap Christiansen) is a

headland A headland, also known as a head, is a coastal landform, a point of land usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends into a body of water. It is a type of promontory. A headland of considerable size often is called a cape.Whittow, John ...

in North

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 is t ...

. Administratively it belongs to the

Northeast Greenland National Park Northeast Greenland National Park ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaanni nuna eqqissisimatitaq, da, Grønlands Nationalpark) is the world's largest national park and the 10th List of largest protected areas in the world, largest protected area (the only large ...

.Nunat Aqqi; Stednavne
/ref> Cape Christiansen was named after Frederick Thorlip Christiansen (1846 – 1884),

Inughuit The Inughuit (also spelled Inuhuit), or the Smith Sound Inuit, historically Arctic Highlanders, are Greenlandic Inuit. Formerly known as "Polar Eskimos", they are the northernmost group of Inuit and the northernmost people in North America, livin ...

dogsled driver and guide of the

Lady Franklin Bay Expedition * The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881–1884 to Lady Franklin Bay on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic was led by Lieutenant Adolphus Greely, and was promoted by the United States Army Signal Corps. Its purpose was to establish a mete ...

who died of starvation on April 5, 1884 at Camp Clay.Meet the Explorers — Fort Conger
/ref>

Geography

Cape Christiansen is a headland located at the northern end of

Lockwood Island Lockwood Island ( da, Lockwood Ø) is an island of the Lincoln Sea, Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park. Lockwood Island is the northernmost sizeable coastal island of Greenland. The waters around the ...

, on the western side of the mouth of

Conger Sound Conger Sound ( da, Conger Sund), also known as Conger Inlet, is a fjord in Peary Land, far northern Greenland.Google Maps The sound was first put on the map at the time of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition led by Adolphus Greely. It was named afte ...

and on the eastern side of

Weyprecht Fjord Weyprecht Fjord is a fjord in Peary Land, northern Greenland. To the northwest, the fjord opens into the Lincoln Sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. The fjord is named after Austro-Hungarian Arctic explor ...

.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 95Greenland Pilot
/ref>
/ref> Near the point there is a

cairn A cairn is a man-made pile (or stack) of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound. The word ''cairn'' comes from the gd, càrn (plural ). Cairns have been and are used for a broad variety of purposes. In prehis ...

that was built by Lieutenant Lockwood in 1882. The cairn was surveyed by

Robert Peary Robert Edwin Peary Sr. (; May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) was an American explorer and officer in the United States Navy who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for, in Apri ...

in 1900 and by

Lauge Koch Lauge Koch (5 July 1892 – 5 June 1964) was a Danish geologist and Arctic explorer. Biography Lauge Koch was born in 1892 to Karl and Elisabeth Koch. His development as a scientist was greatly influenced by his father's second cousin Johan Pet ...

in 1921.

Cape Kane Cape Kane ( da, Kap Kane) is a headland in North Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park. Cape Kane was named after Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane (1820 – 1857) at the time that it was the nearest land ...

is the headland on the eastern side of Conger Sound, at the northern end of

Roosevelt Land Roosevelt Land ( da, Roosevelts Land) is a peninsula in far northern Greenland. It is a part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.Google Maps The territory was named by Robert Peary after US President Theodore Roosevelt (1858 – 1919). Ge ...

References

External links

The Greely Expedition
Headlands of Greenland Peary Land {{greenland-geo-stub

Geography

See also

References

External links