Cape Murdoch (Danish: Kap Murdoch) is a headland in the Avannaata municipality, NW Greenland.[1]
Cape Murdoch
Kap Murdoch | |
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  Cape Murdoch | |
| Coordinates: 76°8′9″N 61°53′38″W / 76.13583°N 61.89389°W | |
| Location | Avannaata, Greenland |
| Offshore water bodies | Melville Bay Baffin Bay |
| Area | |
| • Total | Arctic |
| Elevation | 480 m (1,570 ft) |
Geography
editCape Murdoch is located at the southern end of an unnamed island north of Heilprin Island in Melville Bay.[2]
The cape lies in an area of small islands at the northern limits of Melville Bay to the west of the Fisher Islands and WNW of Thalbitzer Næs, near the terminuses of the Docker Smith Glacier and the Rink Glacier. The terminus of the Peary Glacier lies to the east.[3]
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 84
- ^ Kap Murdoch
- ^ "Kap Murdoch". Mapcarta. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
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