Cape Møsting

Cape Møsting (Danish: Kap Møsting) is a headland in the North Atlantic Ocean, southeast Greenland, Kujalleq municipality.[1]

Cape Møsting
Kap Mösting
LocationKing Frederick VI Coast
Coordinates63°41′N 40°30′W
Offshore water bodiesIrminger Sea (North Atlantic Ocean)
Elevation475 m (1,558 ft)
AreaArctic

History

Cape Møsting was named by Lieutenant Wilhelm August Graah in 1829 during his East Coast expedition. Graah took a latitude observation at the headland and named it after Johan Sigismund von Møsting.[2]

One of the umiak women rowers of Graah's party gave birth to twins at the cape. The Inuit babies died shortly after delivery and were buried in a cleft of the rocks of the two small islands off the SW side of Cape Møsting. Graah named these islands "Tvillingøen", Twin Islands, after the dead twins.[3]

Geography

Cape Møsting is located at the southeastern end of Odinland. It is a steep and prominent headland on the northern side of the mouth of Bernstorff Fjord. Usually great masses of icebergs lie near the fjord entrance to the south of the cape making navigation along the shore difficult. Dangerous eddies and whirlpools form within the bank of icebergs as powerful currents flow out of the fjord.[4] Tvillingøen, two small islands rise near the cape.[5]

North of Cape Møsting the coast of Odinland is steep and covered with glaciers that jut out into the sea at every indentation of the roughly north-trending shore until Otte Krumpen Fjord (Quseertaliip Kangertiva) located 11 km (6.8 mi) to the north of the cape. Further north rise the icy cliffs of the Kangerajiip Apusiia (Colberger Heide) tidewater glacier.[5]

1944 map of the area around Skjoldungen showing Cape Møsting.

References
  1. Den grønlandske Lods - Sejladsanvisninger Østgrønland, p. 49
  2. W. A. Graah, Narrative of an Expedition to the East Coast of Greenland, London, 1837 p. 92
  3. W. A. Graah, Narrative of an Expedition to the East Coast of Greenland, London, 1837 p. 133
  4. Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 102
  5. "Kap Møsting". Mapcarta. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
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