Cape Atholl (), also known as Kangaarasuk, is a headland in Northwest

Greenland Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. It is by far the largest geographically of three constituent parts of the kingdom; the other two are metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenlan ...

Avannaata Avannaata (, ) 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 the south, Avannaata is flanked ...

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

. This cape was named by Commander James Saunders, after

Atholl Atholl or Athole () is a district in the heart of the Scottish Highlands, bordering (in clockwise order, from north-east) Marr, Gowrie, Perth, Strathearn, Breadalbane, Lochaber, and Badenoch. Historically it was a Pictish kingdom, becoming ...

, the class to which his ship HMS ''North Star'' belonged, during the winter 1849–50 in which he was frozen in the

bay A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a ''gulf'', ''sea'', ''sound'', or ''bight''. A ''cove'' is a small, ci ...

to the north and named landmarks in the area.

History

Cape Atholl was a

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LORAN LORAN (Long Range Navigation) was a hyperbolic navigation, hyperbolic radio navigation system developed in the United States during World War II. It was similar to the UK's Gee (navigation), Gee system but operated at lower frequencies in order ...

station in Northwest Greenland, south of

Pituffik Space Base Pituffik Space Base ( ; ; ), formerly Thule Air Base (), is a United States Space Force base located on the northwest coast of Greenland in the Kingdom of Denmark under a defense agreement between Denmark and the United States. 150 United Stat ...

. It was established in 1954 and disestablished in 1975.Fact Sheet at LORAN History Site
/ref> The station was located at Quaratit, about southeast of Cape Atholl proper. *Latitude: 76°18'56.62"N *Longitude: 69°21'21.03"W

Geography

Cape Atholl is located in the mainland, in the eastern shore of

Bylot Sound Bylot Sound is the strait between the mainland of Greenland and Saunders Island and Wolstenholme Island in the Avannaata municipality, northwest Greenland. North Star Bay is the eastern part of the sound. Geography The strait separates Saund ...

Baffin Bay Baffin Bay (Inuktitut: ''Saknirutiak Imanga''; ; ; ), located between Baffin Island and the west coast of Greenland, is defined by the International Hydrographic Organization as a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is sometimes considered a s ...

. It rises at the southern end of the mouth of

Wolstenholme Fjord Wolstenholme Fjord () is a fjord in Avannaata municipality, Northwest Greenland. The United States' Pituffik Space Base and the abandoned Inuit settlement of Narsaarsuk are on the coast of the fjord. The area was contaminated in 1968 with pluton ...

and opposite the eastern end of

Wolstenholme Island Wolstenholme Island () is an island in Baffin Bay, in Avannaata municipality, off northwestern Greenland. The island lies west of the Bylot Sound off Cape Atholl in the southern shore of the mouth of Wolstenholme Fjord, south of Saunders Islan ...

.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 85

References

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External links

Greenland Pilot - Danish Geodata Agency

1954 establishments in Greenland 1975 disestablishments in Greenland Military installations established in 1954 Military installations closed in 1975