{{short description|Headland in northern Greenland}} {{Infobox landform | name = Cape Kane | other_name = ''Kap Kane'' | type = Cape | image = Operational Navigation Chart A-5, 3rd edition.jpg | caption = Map of part of Ellesmere Island and far Northern Greenland | pushpin_map = Greenland | pushpin_relief = yes | map_width = | map_caption = | location = Peary Land, Greenland | water_bodies = Conger Sound<br>Lincoln Sea<br>Hunt Fjord | coordinates = {{coord|83|29|N|39|10|W|type:landmark_region:Gl_scale:1000|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | elevation = {{convert|650|m|abbr=on}}<ref>[https://gst.dk/media/7116/181111_dgl_vestgronland_eng_skr_51_52-2018.pdf Greenland Pilot]</ref> }} '''Cape Kane''' ({{langx|da|Kap Kane}}) is a headland in North Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park.<ref name="NA">[https://asiaq.maps.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=c5c7d9d52a264980a24911d7d33914b5 Nunat Aqqi; Stednavne]</ref>
Cape Kane was named after Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane (1820 – 1857) at the time that it was the nearest land to the North Pole that had been put on the map.<ref>[https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1885/october/polar-question The Polar Question — Proceedings - 1885 Vol. 11/4/35]</ref>
==Geography== Cape Kane is a rocky headland located {{convert|14.5|km|abbr=on}} west of Cape Washington,<ref name="PS">''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 95</ref> northeast of Conger Sound and off the western side of the mouth of Hunt Fjord.<ref name="GI">[https://collections.dartmouth.edu/arctica-beta/html/EA14-13.html Geographical Items on North Greenland - Encyclopedia Arctica 14]</ref> Hunt Fjord is under the influence of slow-moving glaciers discharging on both sides of Cape Kane that completely fill it and partially clog neighboring Conger Sound as well.<ref>[https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/11771240.pdf North Greenland Glacier Velocities and Calf Ice Production]</ref>
Cape Kane is the westernmost point of the Roosevelt Land Peninsula. Cape Christiansen is the headland on the other side of Conger Sound, at the northern end of Lockwood Island.<ref name="PS"/><ref name="NA"/>
==See also== *Peary Land
==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [https://www.novelcool.com/chapter/Explorers-and-Travellers-Part-14/457775/ Explorers and Travellers Part 14] {{DEFAULTSORT:Kane, Cape}} Category:Headlands of Greenland Category:Peary Land {{greenland-geo-stub}}