Cape Morris Jesup
| Cape Morris Jesup | ||
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| Coordinates | 83 ° 37 '39 " N , 32 ° 39' 52" W | |
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Arctic Ocean Lincolnsee (west) Wandelsee (east) |
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The Cape Morris Jesup , the northernmost point of the island of Greenland , a little further north, only the small Kaffeklubben Island and some even smaller gravel banks.
It lies 1,888.08 km beyond the Arctic Circle and 709.39 km south of the North Pole on the mountainous north coast of Pearyland , the northernmost region of Greenland. To the north of Cape Morris Jesup, the area drops quite steeply under the ice of the Arctic Ocean into the Arctic sea basin.
The cape separates the Lincolnsee in the west from the Wandelsee in the east.
The cape was first reached in 1900 by Robert Peary and named after Morris Ketchum Jesup , one of its financiers.
Cape Morris Jesup is the location of an automatic weather station of the Danish Meteorological Service (DMI), the northernmost of 33 weather stations in Greenland. This is checked annually by DMI technicians. The energy is supplied by solar modules in connection with accumulators, which store energy for the polar night. The weather station measures the wind direction and speed, temperature, humidity and air pressure every three hours. The data is forwarded via satellite.
Individual evidence
- ^ Kurt Hassert: Die Polarforschung , Goldmann, Munich 1956, p. 111