Cape Kane

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Cape Kane (Danish: Kap Kane) is a rocky headland in North Greenland, inside the Northeast Greenland National Park. It sits at about 83°29′N, 39°10′W and rises to about 650 meters. The cape is 14.5 kilometers west of Cape Washington, near the mouth of Hunt Fjord on the western coast, and northeast of Conger Sound. Glaciers feeding Hunt Fjord flow on both sides of Cape Kane, filling the fjord and partly blocking Conger Sound. Cape Kane is the westernmost point of the Roosevelt Land Peninsula. Across Conger Sound lies Cape Christiansen at the northern end of Lockwood Island. The cape was named after Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane (1820–1857), who mapped the area as the nearest land to the North Pole at the time.