Cape Desolation (Danish: Kap Desolation, Greenlandic: Kitdlavât Nûgâtsiât), also known as 'Cape Brill', is a headland in southwest Greenland in the Kujalleq municipality.
Cape Desolation
Kitdlavât Nûgâtsiât (Greenlandic) Kap Desolation | |
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  Cape Desolation | |
| Coordinates: 60°44′02″N 48°10′26″W / 60.734°N 48.174°W | |
| Location | Kujalleq, Greenland |
| Offshore water bodies | Labrador Sea |
| Native name | Kitdlavât Nûgâtsiât (Greenlandic) |
| Area | |
| • Total | Arctic |
| Elevation | 600 |
Geography
editThe cape is located 16.66 km to the west-north-west of Cape Thorvaldsen near the modern settlements of Arsuk and Ivittuut.[1] The cape is in an impressive stack of jagged cliffs with the reddish crags of the Killavaat mountain range in the background.[2] The Outer Kitsissut (Torstein Islands) lie 9.5 km west-north-west of the cape.
References
edit- ^ Kap Desolation
- ^ Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 25
External links
edit- Weather forecast for Kap Desolation, Kujalleq (Greenland) Archived 2017-01-07 at the Wayback Machine
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