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Cape Tobin ( kl, Uunartoq, "that which one burns oneself on") is a cape located in the northeast of
Sermersooq Sermersooq (, da, sted med meget is, lit=place of much ice) is a municipality in Greenland, formed on 1 January 2009 from five earlier, smaller municipalities. Its administrative seat is the city of Nuuk (formerly called Godthåb), the capital ...
,
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 ...
. It is located near the settlement of
Ittoqqortoormiit Ittoqqortoormiit (East Greenlandic: ; West Greenlandic: ''Illoqqortoormiut'' ), formerly known as Scoresbysund, is a settlement in the Sermersooq municipality in eastern Greenland. Its population was 345 as of 2020 and has been described as one of ...
, where short trips and long hauls provide access to the cape. Cape Tobin is located opposite
Cape Brewster Cape Brewster ( da, Kap Brewster; kl, Kangikajik, meaning 'the bad cape') is a headland in the Greenland Sea, east Greenland, Sermersooq municipalities of Greenland, municipality. History This headland was named Cape Brewster by William Scoresby ...
(Kangikajik). It is called Uunartoq because it is home to the hottest hot spring in Greenland, where the water temperature is .


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