Cape Desolation
Killavaat Nuugaatsiaat (Greenlandic) Kap Desolation | |
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 Cape Desolation with the Northern Lights | |
Cape Desolation Location within Greenland | |
| Coordinates: 60°44′02″N 48°10′26″W / 60.734°N 48.174°W / 60.734; -48.174 | |
| Location | Kujalleq, Greenland |
| Water bodies | Labrador Sea |
| Area | |
| • Total | Arctic |
| Elevation | 600 |
Cape Desolation (Greenlandic: Killavaat Nuugaatsiaata, Danish: Kap Desolation), also known as 'Cape Brill', is a headland in southwest Greenland in the Kujalleq municipality.
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
References
- formerly spelled as Kitdlavât Nûgâtsiât
- Kap Desolation
- Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 25
External links
External links
- Weather forecast for Kap Desolation, Kujalleq (Greenland) Archived 2017-01-07 at the Wayback Machine