Cape Nansen
Headland in eastern Greenland
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Cape Nansen (Danish: Kap Nansen) is a headland in the Greenland Sea, east Greenland, Sermersooq municipality. This cape is named after Fridtjof Nansen. Cape Nansen is an important geographical landmark.
Cape Nansen
Kap Nansen | |
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  Cape Nansen | |
| Coordinates: 68°13′45″N 29°25′30″W | |
| Location | Sermersooq, Greenland |
| Offshore water bodies | Greenland Sea |
| Area | |
| • Total | Arctic |
Geography
Cape Nansen is located to the northeast of the mouth of the Nansen Fjord in an indented area of the eastern Greenland coast where there is a succession of headlands with active glaciers in between.[1] The cape lies 15 km to the east-northeast of the mighty Cape J.A.D. Jensen on Sokongen Island[2]
This headland has been defined by the International Hydrographic Organization as the Southwest limit of the Greenland Sea, which is a line joining Cape Nansen with Straumnes, Iceland, the NW point of Iceland.[3]
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