Cape Desolation ( da, Kap Desolation), also known as 'Cape Brill', is a headland in southwest
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 ...
in the
Kujalleq
Kujalleq ( Greenlandic: , da, Den Syden, lit=The South) is a municipality on the southern tip of Greenland, operational from 1 January 2009. The administrative center of the municipality is in Qaqortoq (formerly called Julianehåb).
Creation
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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 ...
.
Geography
The cape is located 16.66 km to the west-north-west of
Cape Thorvaldsen
Cape Thorvaldsen ( da, Kap Thorvaldsen) is a headland in southwest Greenland in the Kujalleq municipality. Geography
The cape is located southeast of Cape Desolation near the settlements of Qaqortoq and Narsaq Kujalleq
Narsarmijit, formerly Nar ...
near the modern settlements of
Arsuk
Arsuk is a village in the Sermersooq municipality in southwestern Greenland. It had 73 inhabitants in 2020. The name of the settlement means ''the beloved place'' in the Greenlandic language. and
Ivittuut
Ivittuut (formerly, Ivigtût) (Kalaallisut: "Grassy Place") is an abandoned mining town near Cape Desolation in southwestern Greenland, in the modern Sermersooq municipality on the ruins of the former Norse Middle Settlement.
Ivittuut is one of ...
. The cape is in an impressive stack of jagged cliffs with the reddish crags of the
Killavaat mountain range in the background.
[''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 25] The
Outer Kitsissut
Outer Kitsissut ( da, Ydre Kitsissut, old spelling Ydre Kitsigsut), also known as Thorstein Islands or Torstein Islands, is an island group in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland. Geography
Outer Kitsissut is located to the west-north ...
(Torstein Islands) lie 9.5 km west-north-west of the cape.
References
External links
Weather forecast for Kap Desolation, Kujalleq (Greenland)
Headlands of Greenland
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