Cape Morton

For the headland in Australia, see Cape Moreton.

Cape Morton Kap Morton
Cape
Map of the Nares Strait area.
Cape Morton Location in Greenland
Coordinates: 81°12′N 62°48′W
Location	Avannaata, Greenland
Offshore water bodies	Nares Strait
Elevation	600

Cape Morton (Danish: Kap Morton) is a headland in North Greenland in Avannaata municipality. The cape is named after Arctic explorer William Morton, who surveyed the Nares Strait area together with Hans Hendrik in June 1854 during the Second Grinnell Expedition.

Fossils dating back to the Homerian have been found in the area of the cape. They belong to the Kap Morton Formation of the Peary Land Group.[1]

Geography

Cape Morton is located west of Cape Lucie Marie, off the mouth of the Petermann Fjord opposite Cape Tyson at the northern end of the Petermann Peninsula. Mushroom-shaped Joe Island lies 3.2 km from the shore west-north-west of the cape.[2]

Together with Cape Baird on the eastern coast of Ellesmere Island this cape marks the northern limit of the Kennedy Channel and the entrance of the Hall Basin, both part of the Nares Strait.[3]

See also

• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Greenland
• Peary Land

References

1. Kap Morton Formation - Peary Land Group
2. "Kap Morton". Mapcarta. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
3. Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 93

External links

• The Second Thule Expedition to Northern Greenland, 1916-1918
• Weather forecast for Kap Morton, Qaasuitsup (Greenland)