Cape Morton ( da, Kap Morton) is a headland in North
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 ...
in
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
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the ...
. The cape is named after Arctic explorer
William Morton, who surveyed the Nares Strait area together with
Hans Hendrik in June 1854 during the
Second Grinnell Expedition.
Fossils dating back to the
Homerian
In the geologic timescale, the Homerian is an age of the Wenlock Epoch of the Silurian Period of the Paleozoic Era of the Phanerozoic Eon that is comprehended between 430.5 ± 0.7 Ma and 427.4 ± 0.5 Ma (million years ago), approximately. The H ...
have been found in the area of the cape. They belong to the
Kap Morton Formation of the
Peary Land Group
The Peary Land Group is a geologic group in Greenland. It preserves fossils dating back to the Silurian period.
Formations
The following formations are included in the Peary Land Group:
* Adams Bjerg Formation
* Cape Schuchert Formation
*Pentam ...
.
Geography
Cape Morton is located west of
Cape Lucie Marie, off the mouth of the
Petermann Fjord
Petermann Fjord is a fjord in northwestern Greenland. Administratively it marks the boundary between the Avannaata municipality and the Northeast Greenland National Park.
The fjord and its glacier are named after German cartographer August Heinri ...
opposite
Cape Tyson at the northern end of the
Petermann Peninsula. Mushroom-shaped
Joe Island lies 3.2 km from the shore west-north-west of the cape.
Together with
Cape Baird on the eastern coast of
Ellesmere Island
Ellesmere Island ( iu, script=Latn, Umingmak Nuna, lit=land of muskoxen; french: île d'Ellesmere) is Canada's northernmost and third largest island, and the tenth largest in the world. It comprises an area of , slightly smaller than Great Br ...
this cape marks the northern limit of the
Kennedy Channel and the entrance of the
Hall Basin
Hall Basin is an Arctic waterway between Hall Land in Greenland to the east and Canada's northernmost island, Ellesmere Island, to the west.
Hall Basin is named after American polar explorer Charles Francis Hall.
Geography
Hall Basin is locat ...
, both part of the
Nares Strait
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See also
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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Greenland
This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Greenland.
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units
See also
* List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Antarctica
* Lists of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in North America
* ...
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Peary Land
References
External links
The Second Thule Expedition to Northern Greenland, 1916-1918Weather forecast for Kap Morton, Qaasuitsup (Greenland)
Headlands of Greenland
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