Cape Brewster
Kangikajik (Greenlandic)
Headland
Cape Brewster is located in Greenland
Cape Brewster
Cape Brewster
Coordinates: 70°9′N 22°3′W / 70.150°N 22.050°W / 70.150; -22.050
LocationSermersooq, Greenland
Offshore water bodiesGreenland Sea
Native nameKangikajik (Greenlandic)
Area
 • TotalArctic
Elevation1200

Cape Brewster (Danish: Kap Brewster; Greenlandic: Kangikajik, meaning 'the bad cape') is a headland in the Greenland Sea, east Greenland, Sermersooq municipality.

History

This headland was named Cape Brewster by William Scoresby (1789 – 1857) in 1822 to honour his friend, inventor David Brewster (1781–1868).[1]

Geography

Cape Brewster is the easternmost point of the jagged and mountainous Savoia Peninsula and the northernmost point of the Blosseville Coast.[2]

It is located at the end of the southern side of the mouth of the Scoresby Sound, opposite Cape Tobin (Uunarteq).[3] The cape lies in the desolate and impressive area of the southern shore of the sound with steep dark basalt walls rising between 1,000 and 2,000 m (3,280-6,560 ft).[4]

Map of NE Greenland and Iceland.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Place names, NE Greenland
  2. ↑ Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 111
  3. ↑ Kap Tobin
  4. ↑ Kap Brewster
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