Cape Desolation
Kitdlavât Nûgâtsiât (Greenlandic)
Kap Desolation
Cape Desolation is located in Greenland
Cape Desolation
Cape Desolation
Coordinates: 60°44′02″N 48°10′26″W / 60.734°N 48.174°W / 60.734; -48.174
LocationKujalleq, Greenland
Offshore water bodiesLabrador Sea
Native nameKitdlavât Nûgâtsiât (Greenlandic)
Area
  TotalArctic
Elevation600

Cape Desolation (Danish: Kap Desolation, Greenlandic: Kitdlavât Nûgâtsiât), 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

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


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