Cape_Desolation

Cape Desolation

Cape Desolation

Headland in southwest Greenland

Cape Desolation (Danish: Kap Desolation, Greenlandic: Kitdlavât Nûgâtsiât), also known as 'Cape Brill', is a headland in southwest Greenland in the Kujalleq municipality.

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Geography

The 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

  1. [1]
    Kap Desolation
  2. [2]
    Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 25


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