Cape Biot ( da, Kap Biot) is a headland in the

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, Northeast

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Sermersooq Sermersooq (, da, sted med meget is, lit=place of much ice) is a municipality in Greenland, formed on 1 January 2009 from five earlier, smaller municipalities. Its administrative seat is the city of Nuuk (formerly called Godthåb), the capital ...

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History

This headland was named "Cape Biot" by

William Scoresby William Scoresby (5 October 178921 March 1857) was an English whaler, Arctic explorer, scientist and clergyman. Early years Scoresby was born in the village of Cropton near Pickering south-west of Whitby in Yorkshire. His father, William S ...

(1789 – 1857) in 1822 to honour physicist, astronomer and mathematician

Jean Baptiste Biot Jean-Baptiste Biot (; ; 21 April 1774 – 3 February 1862) was a French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who co-discovered the Biot–Savart law of magnetostatics with Félix Savart, established the reality of meteorites, made an earl ...

(1774 – 1862).Place names, NE Greenland
/ref> A hunting station known as "Kap Biot Station" was built by four Danes that had been brought on ship ''Furenak'' in 1940 at the NW end of Fleming Fjord below the promontory of Cape Biot at the time of

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. As part of a

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, the purpose was to establish a

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to support

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military activity in the North Atlantic. On 7 September 1940 patrol boat Fridtjof Nansen of the Free Norwegian Navy evacuated the personnel to

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and destroyed the station by fire. The following year the Germans would try to establish another meteorological facility at Jonsbu.Spencer Apollonio, ''Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland,'' 2008, p. 263

Geography

Cape Biot is located in the

, south of

Cape Simpson Cape Simpson is a high rocky bluff at the north end of Ufs Island, forming the east side of the entrance to Howard Bay. Discovered in February 1931 by the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) under Mawson. He ...

on the opposite side of the mouth of

Davy Sound The Davy Sound ( da, Davy Sund) is a sound in King Christian X Land, Northeast Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. History The sound was named and put on the map by William Scoresby (1789 – 1857) ...

. Cape Biot is at the northwestern end of the Fleming Fjord in

Jameson Land Jameson Land is a peninsula in eastern Greenland. Geography Jameson Land is bounded to the southwest by Scoresby Sound (the world's largest fjord), to the northwest by the Stauning Alps, to the north by Scoresby Land, to the northeast by the Fle ...

. It also marks the northern end of

municipality. It is a conspicuous headland. Most of the year the area around the cape is filled with ice, even in the summer.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 118

References

External links

Greenland Pilot - Danish Geodata Agency
Headlands of Greenland {{greenland-geo-stub

History

Geography

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