Cape Møsting
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LocationKing Frederick VI Coast
Elevation475 m (1,558 ft)
Cape Møsting
Kap Mösting | |
|---|---|
  Cape Møsting | |
| Coordinates: 63°41′N 40°30′W / 63.683°N 40.500°W | |
| Location | King Frederick VI Coast |
| Offshore water bodies | Irminger Sea (North Atlantic Ocean) |
| Area | |
| • Total | Arctic |
| Elevation | 475 m (1,558 ft) |
Cape Møsting (Danish: Kap Møsting) is a headland in the North Atlantic Ocean, southeast Greenland, Kujalleq municipality.[1]
Cape Møsting was named by Lieutenant Wilhelm August Graah in 1829 during his East Coast expedition. Graah took a latitude observation at the headland and named it after Johan Sigismund von Møsting.[2]
One of the umiak women rowers of Graah's party gave birth to twins at the cape. The Inuit 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.[3]
