Cape Gustav Holm
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Tasiilap KarraDen grønlandske Lods - Geodatastyrelsen
/ref> or Cape Gustav Holm ( da, Kap Gustav Holm) is a headland in eastern
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, Sermersooq
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. It was named after officer of the
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and Arctic explorer Gustav Holm (1849 – 1940).


Geography

Cape Gustav Holm is located near the
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on the shores of the Denmark Strait coast of the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of
Tasiilaq Tasiilaq, formerly Ammassalik and Angmagssalik, is a town in the Sermersooq municipality in southeastern Greenland. With 1,985 inhabitants as of 2020, it is the most populous community on the eastern coast, and the seventh-largest town in Green ...
. This cape is the southern end of a narrow mountainous peninsula east of the Ikersuak Fjord which extends in a NE/SW direction, rising to a height of 966 m. The islet of Nanertalik lies 1.2 km off a small projection on the shore 5 km northeast of the cape and Cape Buchholz is located a further 7 km to the northeast along the coast.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 110 The Northern K.J.V. Steenstrup Glacier has its terminus west of the cape.
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References


External links


The Kap Gustav Holm Tertiary Plutonic Centre - GeoScienceWorld

Cape Nansen, Greenland
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