Cape Møsting () is a headland in the

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, southeast

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History

Cape Møsting was named by 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 ...

in 1829 during his East Coast expedition. Graah took a latitude observation at the headland and named it after Johan Sigismund von Møsting. One of the

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women rowers of Graah's party gave birth to twins at the cape. The

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babies died shortly after delivery and were buried in a cleft of the rocks of the two small islands off the SW side of Cape Møsting. Graah named these islands ''"Tvillingøen"'', Twin Islands, after the dead twins.

Geography

Cape Møsting is located at the southeastern end of

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. It is a steep and prominent headland on the northern side of the mouth of Bernstorff Fjord. Usually great masses of icebergs lie near the fjord entrance to the south of the cape making navigation along the shore difficult. Dangerous eddies and whirlpools form within the bank of icebergs as powerful currents flow out of the fjord.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 102 Tvillingøen, two small islands rise near the cape. North of Cape Møsting the coast of Odinland is steep and covered with glaciers that jut out into the sea at every indentation of the roughly north-trending shore until Otte Krumpen Fjord ''(Quseertaliip Kangertiva)'' located to the north of the cape. Further north rise the icy cliffs of the Kangerajiip Apusiia (Colberger Heide)

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Seabirds and seals in Southeast Greenland
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