| Cape Kane | |
| Other Name: | Kap Kane |
| Type: | Cape |
| Map: | Greenland |
| Relief: | yes |
| Location: | Peary Land, Greenland |
| Water Bodies: | Conger Sound Lincoln Sea Hunt Fjord |
| Coordinates: | 83.4833°N -49°W |
| Elevation: | 650m (2,130feet)[1] |
Cape Kane (Danish: Kap Kane) is a headland in North Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park.[2]
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.[3]
Cape Kane is a rocky headland located 14.5km (09miles) west of Cape Washington,[4] northeast of Conger Sound and off the western side of the mouth of Hunt Fjord.[5] 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.[6]
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.[4] [2]