Cape Henry Parish
{{Short description|Headland in Greenland}}
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| image = Peary Land map 1903.jpg
| caption = Peary's 1900 explorations map showing Cape Henry Parish in an uncertain position.
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| location = Peary Land, Greenland
| water_bodies = Wandel Sea, Arctic Ocean
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Cape Henry Parish ({{langx|da|Kap Henry Parish}}) is a broad headland in the Wandel Sea, Arctic Ocean, northernmost Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.
History
In 1900 Peary explored the north coast of Greenland from Cape Washington in the west to a place he named Wyckoff Island in the east, on the way reaching Cape Morris Jesup, the northernmost point of mainland Greenland.{{cite book|last=Mirsky|first=Jeannette|title=To the Arctic: The story of northern exploration from earliest times to the present|publisher=University of Chicago Press|year=1970|location=Chicago|url=https://archive.org/details/toarcticstoryofn0000mirs|url-access=registration}} Cape Henry Parish was visible in the distance and was named by Robert Peary after banker Henry Parish (1829-1917), President of the New York Life Insurance & Trust Co., and one of the founding members of the Peary Arctic Club in New York.[https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/peary/nordpol/chap016.html Projekt Gutenberg - XIV. Der Peary Arctic Club]
This headland was marked on Robert Peary's map of the eastern coast of North Greenland as guesswork, based on sighting of two headlands from Wyckoff Land, for the visibility was marred by fog.Spencer Apollonio, Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland, 2008 p. 101 Cape Henry Parish was finally charted with accuracy by J.P. Koch during the 1906-07 Danmark Expedition.[https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD0269405.pdf EVALUATION OF ARCTIC ICE-FREE LAND SITES - KRONPRINS CHRISTIAN LAND AND PEARY LAND, NORTH GREENLAND]
Geography
Cape Henry Parish is located at the northern end of Herlufsholm Strand, in the eastern shore of Peary Land, {{convert|32|km|ft|0}} to the NW of Cape Eiler Rasmussen, Peary Land's easternmost point. It lies off the NE side of the mouth of Hellefisk Fjord,GoogleEarth and {{convert|13|km|ft|0}} to the SE of Cape Clarence Wyckoff. Mount Wyckoff, reaching a height of {{convert|850|m|ft|0}}, rises above the shore of the headland.Sailing Directions for East Greenland and Iceland, p. 181
References
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External links
- [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1922-pt10-v62/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1922-pt10-v62-18.pdf Congressional Record - Senate]
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