Cape Peary ( da, Kap Peary) is a

headland A headland, also known as a head, is a coastal landform, a point of land usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends into a body of water. It is a type of promontory. A headland of considerable size often is called a cape.Whittow, John ...

in the

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, NW

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 ...

.Geonames; Kap Peary: Greenland
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History

This cape was named after US Arctic explorer

Robert Peary Robert Edwin Peary Sr. (; May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) was an American explorer and officer in the United States Navy who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for, in Apri ...

(1856 - 1920).

Geography

Cape Peary is located on the eastern side of the shore of

Granville Fjord Granville Fjord ( kl, Iterlassuaq) is a fjord in Avannaata municipality, Northwest Greenland. Geography Granville Fjord is located in Steensby Land, in the stretch of coast between Cape York (Greenland), Cape York and Cape Alexander, Greenland, Ca ...

just north of the Drinkard Bluff, about north of the fjord's mouth and northwest of the Moriusaq

Inuit Inuit (; iu, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, , dual: Inuuk, ) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories ...

settlement.

References

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History

Geography

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