Cape Walløe (), also known as Kangeq and Kangerssiuasik, is a headland in the
North Atlantic Ocean
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, southeast
Greenland
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,
Kujalleq
Kujalleq (Greenlandic language, Greenlandic: , ) 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
The munic ...
municipality
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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 ...
(1793–1863) after Dano-
Norwegian Arctic explorer
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Peder Olsen Walløe (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
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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 Fjord.
[''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 100] The entrance of
Kangerluaraq Fjord lies to the NW around the cape.
References
External links
Seabirds and seals in Southeast Greenland
Walloe
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