Cape Møsting ( da, Kap Møsting) is a headland in the

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, southeast

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 ...

Kujalleq Kujalleq ( Greenlandic: , da, Den Syden, lit=The South) is a municipality on the southern tip of Greenland, operational from 1 January 2009. The administrative center of the municipality is in Qaqortoq (formerly called Julianehåb). Creation ...

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History

Cape Møsting was named by Lieutenant

Wilhelm August Graah Wilhelm August Graah (1793–1863) was a Danish naval officer and Arctic explorer. Graah had mapped areas of West Greenland when he, in 1828–30, was sent by King Frederick VI of Denmark on an expedition to the unmapped eastern coast with t ...

in 1829 during his East Coast expedition. Graah took a latitude observation at the headland and named it after

Johan Sigismund von Møsting Johan Sigismund von Mösting (2 November 1759 – 16 September 1843) was a Danish banker and finance minister. He was a key figure in the foundation of Bank of Denmark in 1818. His name is today also associated with Møstings Hus ("Møsting's Hou ...

. One of the

umiak The umiak, umialak, umiaq, umiac, oomiac, oomiak, ongiuk, or anyak is a type of open skin boat, used by both Yupik and Inuit, and was originally found in all coastal areas from Siberia to Greenland. First arising in Thule times, it has tradition ...

women rowers of Graah's party gave birth to twins at the cape. The

Inuit Inuit (; iu, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, , dual: Inuuk, ) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, ...

babies died shortly after delivery and were buried in a cleft of the rocks of the two small islands off the SW side of Cape Møsting. Graah named these islands ''"Tvillingøen"'', Twin Islands, after the dead twins.

Geography

Cape Møsting is located at the southeastern end of

Odinland Odinland ( da, Odin Land), also ''Odinsland'' in the Defense Mapping Agency Greenland Navigation charts, is a peninsula in the King Frederick VI Coast, southeastern Greenland. It is a part of the Sermersooq municipality. The peninsula is ful ...

. It is a steep and prominent headland on the northern side of the mouth of

Bernstorff Fjord Bernstorff Fjord ( da, Bernstorff Isfjord; kl, Kangertittivaq) is a fjord in King Frederick VI Coast, eastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Sermersooq municipality. The fjord was named after Danish statesman Andreas Peter Bernsto ...

. Usually great masses of icebergs lie near the fjord entrance to the south of the cape making navigation along the shore difficult. Dangerous eddies and whirlpools form within the bank of icebergs as powerful currents flow out of the fjord.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 102 Tvillingøen, two small islands rise near the cape. North of Cape Møsting the coast of Odinland is steep and covered with glaciers that jut out into the sea at every indentation of the roughly north-trending shore until Otte Krumpen Fjord ''(Quseertaliip Kangertiva)'' located to the north of the cape. Further north rise the icy cliffs of the Kangerajiip Apusiia (Colberger Heide)

tidewater glacier The tidewater glacier cycle is the typically centuries-long behavior of tidewater glaciers that consists of recurring periods of advance alternating with rapid retreat and punctuated by periods of stability. During portions of its cycle, a tidewate ...

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Seabirds and seals in Southeast Greenland
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