Cape Steen Bille ( da, Kap Steen Bille) or ''Kap Bille'', also known as Kangeq, is a headland in the

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, southeast

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History

Cape Steen Bille was named in 1829 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 t ...

(1793–1863) after Steen Andersen Bille (1797–1883), Danish Royal Navy vice-admiral and minister for the navy. Fridtjof Nansen visited the area in 1888 before his crossing of the Greenland ice sheet from the east.

Geography

Cape Steen Bille is a promontory of yellowish rock located in the Puisortoq area south of Cape Cort Adelaer.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 100 The cluster of the Otto Rud Islands lies to the NNW around the cape.

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Seabirds and seals in Southeast Greenland
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