Cape Brown () is a headland in the

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, east

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History

This headland was named "Cape Brown" 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, Willia ...

(1789–1857) in 1822 to honour Scottish botanist

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(1773–1858).Place names, NE Greenland
/ref> A small wintering station known as "Kap Brown Station" was built in 1934 on the eastern shore of nearby Fleming Fjord SW of Cape Brown at the time of the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland.Spencer Apollonio, ''Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland,'' 2008, p. 192 The names ''Vimmelskaftet'' and ''Flemmingfjordhuset'' were also used for the same station.

Geography

Cape Brown is located in the

south of

Cape Biot Cape Biot () is a headland in the Greenland Sea, Northeast Greenland, Sermersooq municipality. History This headland was named "Cape Biot" by William Scoresby (1789 – 1857) in 1822 to honour physicist, astronomer and mathematician Jean Bapt ...

, off the southern end of

Davy Sound The Davy Sound () 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) in 1822 in h ...

. Cape Brown is the northernmost point of the

Wegener Peninsula Wegener Peninsula () is a peninsula in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. History This peninsula was named during the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland by Arne No ...

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 F ...

. Rising between the mouth of Fleming Fjord to the west and

Nathorst Fjord Alfred Gabriel Nathorst (7 November 1850 – 20 January 1921) was a Swedish Arctic explorer, geologist, and palaeobotanist. He travelled to Spitzbergen, Svalbard and Greenland where he took an interest in the Arctic floras from the Paleozoic ...

to the east, it is a high conspicuous headland with reddish-brown rocky sides. ''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

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