Cape Steen Bille () or ''Kap Bille'', also known as Kangeq, is a headland in the
North Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about . It covers approximately 17% of Earth's surface and about 24% of its water surface area. During the Age of Discovery, it was known for se ...
, southeast
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 ...
,
Kujalleq
Kujalleq (Greenlandic language, Greenlandic: , ) 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
The munic ...
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' ...
.
History
Cape Steen Bille was named in 1829 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 ...
(1793–1863) after
Steen Andersen Bille (1797–1883)
Vice-Admiral Steen Andersen Bille (5 December 1797 – 2 May 1883) was a Danish naval officer and politician who served as Minister for the Navy from 1852 to 1854. He served in the First Schleswig War, and Cape Steen Bille on the King Frederic ...
,
Danish Royal Navy
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vice-admiral and minister for the navy.
Fridtjof Nansen
Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (; 10 October 1861 – 13 May 1930) was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He gained prominence at various points in his life as an explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and co-founded the ...
visited the area in 1888 before his crossing of the
Greenland ice sheet
The Greenland ice sheet is an ice sheet which forms the second largest body of ice in the world. It is an average of thick and over thick at its maximum. It is almost long in a north–south direction, with a maximum width of at a latitude ...
from the east.
Geography
Cape Steen Bille is a promontory of yellowish rock located in the
Puisortoq area south of
Cape Cort Adelaer.
[''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 100] The cluster of the
Otto Rud Islands lies to the NNW around the cape.
References
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Seabirds and seals in Southeast Greenland
Steen Bille
Steen Bille (1565–1629) was a Danish councillor and diplomat.
He was the son of Jens Bille and Karen Rønnow, and is sometimes called "Steen Jensen Bille". His father compiled a manuscript of ballads, Jens Billes visebog.
As a young man Bille ...
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