Cape Farvel
Coordinates: 59 ° 46 '28 " N , 43 ° 54' 39" W.
Cape Farvel (English Cape Farewell , Greenlandic Uummannarsuaq ( large heart-shaped mountain ) or Nunap Isua ( end of the country )) is often referred to as the southernmost point of Greenland with 59 ° 46 ′ 28 ″ north latitude . It is located on the island of Eggers Ø ( Itilleq in Greenlandic ), which is in front of the Greenland mainland to the south, about the width of Oslo . The cape is more south than z. B. Helsinki or St. Petersburg .
The waters around Cape Farvel have been particularly dangerous since the Middle Ages due to frequent storms and drift ice .
geography
Eggers is the second largest island in the Nunap Isa archipelago. The largest island in the archipelago is Christian IV Ø ( Sammisoq in Greenlandic ). To the south of the island of Eggers there are still some smaller, unnamed rock islands, the southernmost and largest of them 2.1 km south of Cape Farvel.
The southernmost point of the Greenland mainland is about 45 km west-northwest of Cape Farvel near Friedrichstal . Between the Nunap-Isa Archipelago and the mainland runs Prins Christian Sund as strait .
The southernmost point of Greenland (including the minor islands) is at 59 ° 44 ′ 48 ″ N. There, on the southern tip of Greenland, the Labrador Sea in the west and the Irminger Sea in the east border one another. To the south of it lies the open North Atlantic.
history
Cape Farvel was circumnavigated in 1585 by the British rediscoverer of Greenland, John Davis , and named Cape Farewell .
At Cape Farvel, the German missionary Konrad Kleinschmidt built the southernmost mission station of the Moravian Brethren in Greenland, Friedrichstal ( Frederiksdal in Danish , Narsaq Kujalleq in Greenland ).
In one of Greenland's largest shipping disasters on its maiden voyage on January 30, 1959, the flagship of the Danish Greenland fleet, the Hans Hedtoft , which was considered unsinkable, sank at Cape Farvel after a collision with an iceberg , killing all 95 people on board.
See also
Web links
- Börge Pflüger: Changes in ice conditions on the southern tip of Greenland from 1777 to 2002 (PDF; 643 kB). In: G. Gönnert, B. Pflüger, J.-A. Bremer (Ed.): From geoarchaeology to coastal dynamics to coastal zone management (= Coastline Reports 9, 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811839-1-7 ), pp. 149–162
- Aerial views of the Cape Farvel region