Cape Discord ( da, Kap Discord), also known as Kangeq, is a headland in the
North Atlantic Ocean
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, southeast
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 ...
,
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
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
.
History
Cape Discord was named in old maps before Lieutenant
Wilhelm August Graah
Wilhelm August Graah (1793–1863) was a Danish naval officer and Arctic explorer. Graah had mapped areas of West Greenland when he, in 1828–30, was sent by King Frederick VI of Denmark on an expedition to the unmapped eastern coast with t ...
passed it in 1829 during his East Coast expedition. Graah took a latitude observation at the headland.
Geography
Cape Discord is located east of
Danell Fjord
Iluileq ( da, Danell Fjord) is a fjord in the King Frederick VI Coast, Kujalleq municipality, southern Greenland.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 100
This fjord was named by Wilhelm August Graah after
David D ...
, at the eastern end of
Iluileq
Iluileq (named 'Ilivilik' in old maps) is an uninhabited island in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland.
History
Wilhelm August Graah (1793–1863) met groups of Southeast-Greenland Inuit on the island during his 1828–30 expedition ...
Island, northeast of the mouth of
Paatusoq
Paatusoq, mentioned as 'Patursok' by Wilhelm August Graah, is a fjord in the King Frederick VI Coast, Kujalleq municipality, southeastern Greenland. Its name means "The one with the big mouth" in the Greenlandic language.
Geography
Paatusoq Fjor ...
Fjord.
[''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 100] The entrance of
Kangerluk Fjord
Kangerluk, also known as ''Kangerluluarak'', is a fjord in the King Frederick VI Coast, Kujalleq municipality, southern Greenland.
History
In Kangerluk there is a small cove at a place named Saqqap Nuua (Serkertnua) where Lieutenant Wilhelm Augu ...
is NW and that of
Kuutseq Fjord SSW of the cape.
References
External links
Seabirds and seals in Southeast Greenland
Discord
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