Cape Cort Adelaer (), also known as Cape Adelaer, is a headland in the

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, southeast

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Sermersooq Sermersooq () is a municipality in Greenland, formed on 1 January 2009 from five previous, smaller municipalities. Its administrative seat is the city of Nuuk (formerly called Godthåb), the capital of Greenland, and it is the most populous ...

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. This cape is named after Norwegian seaman

Cort Adeler Cort Sivertsen Adeler (16 December 16225 November 1675), known in Denmark as Coort Sifvertsen Adelaer, in the Netherlands as Koert Sievertsen Adelaer and in Italy as Curzio Suffrido Adelborst, was the name of honour given to Kurt Sivertsen, a No ...

(1622–1675) who distinguished himself for services rendered to the

Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy The history of the Danish navy began with the founding of a joint Denmark-Norway, Dano-Norwegian navy on 10 August 1510, when John, King of Denmark, King John appointed his vassal Henrich Krummedige, Henrik Krummedige to become "chief captain and ...

Geography

Cape Cort Adelaer is located in the northeast of an irregularly-shaped coastal island located on the northern side of the mouth of the Napasorsuaq Fjord. Cape Daniel Rantzau, the SE headland of the same island is located 7.2 km to the south. Small Uummannaarsuk island lies 2 km to the southeast of the cape. The dangerous active glacier Puisortoq is located to the north.

History

Cape Cort Adelaer

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was built and staffed on this headland by the

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during

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

. It was established by Major John T. Crowell in 1943, at the same time that the Comanche Bay facility was reestablished.Spencer Apollonio, ''Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland'', 2008 pp. 272-275 At that time there was another weather station on

Skjoldungen Skjoldungen () is a large uninhabited island in the King Frederick VI Coast, southeastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Sermersooq municipality. The weather of the island is characterized by tundra climate. The island was named b ...

further north up the coast.

References

External links

Weather forecast for Kap Cort Adelaer, Kujalleq (Greenland)
Headlands of Greenland World War II sites in Greenland {{greenland-geo-stub