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Cape Nansen

Coordinates: 68°13′45″N 29°25′30″W / 68.22917°N 29.42500°W / 68.22917; -29.42500
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Cape Nansen
Kap Nansen
Cape Nansen is located in Greenland
Cape Nansen
Cape Nansen
Coordinates: 68°13′45″N 29°25′30″W / 68.22917°N 29.42500°W / 68.22917; -29.42500
LocationSermersooq, Greenland
Offshore water bodiesGreenland Sea
Area
 • TotalArctic

Cape Nansen (Danish: Kap Nansen) is a headland in the Greenland Sea, east Greenland, Sermersooq municipality. This cape is named after Fridtjof Nansen. Cape Nansen is an important geographical landmark.

Geography

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Cape Nansen is located to the northeast of the mouth of the Nansen Fjord in an indented area of the eastern Greenland coast where there is a succession of headlands with active glaciers in between.[1] The cape lies 15 km to the east-northeast of the mighty Cape J.A.D. Jensen on Sokongen Island[2]

This headland has been defined by the International Hydrographic Organization as the Southwest limit of the Greenland Sea, which is a line joining Cape Nansen with Straumnes, Iceland, the NW point of Iceland.[3]

Map of Greenland section.

References

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  1. ^ Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 110
  2. ^ "Kap Nansen". Mapcarta. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  3. ^ "Limits of Oceans and Seas, 3rd edition". International Hydrographic Organization. 1953. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
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