Cape Walløe ( da, Kap Walløe), also known as Kangeq and Kangerssiuasik, is a headland in the

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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 i ...

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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History

Cape Walløe 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 Dano-

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Arctic explorer

Peder Olsen Walløe Peder Olsen Walløe (1716 – 27 April 1793) was a Dano-Norwegian Arctic explorer most noted for his historic exploration of the former Norse settlements on Greenland. Biography Peder Olsen Walloe was born on the Baltic Sea island of Bornholm. In ...

(1716 – 1793) who was the first European known with certainty to have explored the southern part of the southeastern coast of Greenland using local

umiak The umiak, umialak, umiaq, umiac, oomiac, oomiak, ongiuk, or anyak is a type of open skin boat, used by both Yupik and Inuit, and was originally found in all coastal areas from Siberia to Greenland. First arising in Thule times, it has tradition ...

boats. This headland was the farthest point that Walløe reached up the then uncharted coast before he had to turn back because he found it impossible to proceed further north owing to the ice.

Geography

Cape Walløe is located northeast of the mouth of

Nattoralik Nattoralik, old spelling ''Nagtoralik'', is a fjord in the King Frederick VI Coast, Kujalleq municipality, southern Greenland. There is a Paleo-Eskimo archaeological site on the northern shore of the fjord. Geography Nattoralik is a short fjord ...

Fjord.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 100 The entrance of

Kangerluaraq Kangerluaraq, old spelling ''Kangerdluaraq'', is a fjord in the King Frederick VI Coast, Kujalleq municipality, southern Greenland. Geography Kangerluaraq is a narrow fjord lying between the Kuutseq to the north and the Nattoralik and Nanuuseq f ...

Fjord lies to the NW around the cape.

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Seabirds and seals in Southeast Greenland
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