Cape Kane ( da, Kap Kane) is a

headland A headland, also known as a head, is a coastal landform, a point of land usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends into a body of water. It is a type of promontory. A headland of considerable size often is called a cape.Whittow, Joh ...

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 is ...

. Administratively it belongs to the

Northeast Greenland National Park Northeast Greenland National Park ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaanni nuna eqqissisimatitaq, da, Grønlands Nationalpark) is the world's largest national park and the 10th largest protected area (the only larger protected areas all consist mostly of sea). ...

.Nunat Aqqi; Stednavne
/ref> Cape Kane was named after Arctic explorer

Elisha Kent Kane Elisha Kent Kane (February 3, 1820 – February 16, 1857) was a United States Navy medical officer and Arctic explorer. He served as assistant surgeon during Caleb Cushing's journey to China to negotiate the Treaty of Wangxia and in the ...

(1820 – 1857) at the time that it was the nearest land to the North Pole that had been put on the map.

Geography

Cape Kane is a rocky headland located west of Cape Washington,''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 95 northeast of Conger Sound and off the western side of the mouth of Hunt Fjord.Geographical Items on North Greenland - Encyclopedia Arctica 14
/ref> Hunt Fjord is under the influence of slow-moving

glacier A glacier (; ) is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires distinguishing features, such a ...

s discharging on both sides of Cape Kane that completely fill it and partially clog neighboring Conger Sound as well.North Greenland Glacier Velocities and Calf Ice Production
/ref> Cape Kane is the westernmost point of the

Roosevelt Land Roosevelt Land ( da, Roosevelts Land) is a peninsula in far northern Greenland. It is a part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.Google Maps The territory was named by Robert Peary after US President Theodore Roosevelt (1858 – 1919). Geogr ...

Peninsula. Cape Christiansen is the headland on the other side of Conger Sound, at the northern end of

Lockwood Island Lockwood Island ( da, Lockwood Ø) is an island of the Lincoln Sea, Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park. Lockwood Island is the northernmost sizeable coastal island of Greenland. The waters around the ...

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Explorers and Travellers Part 14
Headlands of Greenland Peary Land {{greenland-geo-stub

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