Английская Википедия:Cape Brown (Greenland)

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Шаблон:About Шаблон:Infobox landform Cape Brown (Шаблон:Lang-da) is a headland in the Greenland Sea, east Greenland, Sermersooq municipality.

History

This headland was named "Cape Brown" by William Scoresby (1789 – 1857) in 1822 to honour Scottish botanist Robert Brown (1773–1858).[1]

A small wintering station known as "Kap Brown Station" was built in 1934 on the eastern shore of nearby Fleming Fjord Шаблон:Convert SW of Cape Brown at the time of the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland.[2] The names Vimmelskaftet and Flemmingfjordhuset were also used for the same station.[1]

Geography

Cape Brown is located in the Greenland Sea south of Cape Biot, off the southern end of Davy Sound.[3]

Cape Brown is the northernmost point of the Wegener Peninsula in Jameson Land. Rising between the mouth of Fleming Fjord to the west and Nathorst Fjord to the east, it is a Шаблон:Convert high conspicuous headland with reddish-brown rocky sides. [4]

Файл:Operational Navigation Chart C-1, 1st edition.jpg
Map of NE Greenland and Iceland with Cape Brown in the upper left corner.

See also

References

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External links

Шаблон:Greenland-geo-stub

  1. 1,0 1,1 Place names, NE Greenland
  2. Spencer Apollonio, Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland, 2008, p. 192
  3. Шаблон:Cite web
  4. Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 118