Cape Morton ( da, Kap Morton) is a headland in North
Greenland in
Avannaata
Avannaata (, da, Det Nordlige, lit=The Northern) is a municipality of Greenland created on 1 January 2018 from the bulk of the former Qaasuitsup municipality. It encompasses an area of 522,700 km2 and has 10,726 inhabitants.
Geography
In ...
municipality. The cape is named after Arctic explorer
William Morton, who surveyed the Nares Strait area together with
Hans Hendrik in June 1854 during the
Second Grinnell Expedition.
Fossils dating back to the
Homerian
In the geologic timescale, the Homerian is an age of the Wenlock Epoch of the Silurian Period of the Paleozoic Era of the Phanerozoic Eon that is comprehended between 430.5 ± 0.7 Ma and 427.4 ± 0.5 Ma (million years ago), approximately. The H ...
have been found in the area of the cape. They belong to the
Kap Morton Formation of the
Peary Land Group.
Geography
Cape Morton is located west of
Cape Lucie Marie
A cape is a clothing accessory or a sleeveless outer garment which drapes the wearer's back, arms, and chest, and connects at the neck.
History
Capes were common in medieval Europe, especially when combined with a hood in the chaperon. Th ...
, off the mouth of the
Petermann Fjord opposite
Cape Tyson at the northern end of the
Petermann Peninsula Petermann may refer to:
Places Antarctica
* Petermann Island
*Petermann Ranges (Antarctica)
Australia
* Petermann, Northern Territory, a locality
*Petermann Orogeny, a geological feature
*Petermann Ranges (Australia)
Greenland
*Petermann Glaci ...
. Mushroom-shaped
Joe Island lies 3.2 km from the shore west-north-west of the cape.
Together with
Cape Baird on the eastern coast of
Ellesmere Island
Ellesmere Island ( iu, script=Latn, Umingmak Nuna, lit=land of muskoxen; french: île d'Ellesmere) is Canada's northernmost and List of Canadian islands by area, third largest island, and the List of islands by area, tenth largest in the world. ...
this cape marks the northern limit of the
Kennedy Channel and the entrance of the
Hall Basin, both part of the
Nares Strait.
[''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 93]
See also
*
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Greenland
*
Peary Land
References
External links
The Second Thule Expedition to Northern Greenland, 1916-1918Weather forecast for Kap Morton, Qaasuitsup (Greenland)
Headlands of Greenland
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