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Cape Brewster

*Kangikajik* (Greenlandic)
Cape Brewster Kangikajik (Greenlandic)
Headland
	Cape Brewster
	Coordinates: 70°9′N 22°3′W / 70.150°N 22.050°W
Location	Sermersooq, Greenland
Offshore water bodies	Greenland Sea
Native name	Kangikajik (Greenlandic)
Area
• Total	Arctic
Elevation	1200

Cape Brewster (Danish: Kap Brewster; Greenlandic: Kangikajik, meaning 'the bad cape') is a headland in the Greenland Sea, east Greenland, Sermersooq municipality.

History edit

This headland was named Cape Brewster by William Scoresby (1789 – 1857) in 1822 to honour his friend, inventor David Brewster (1781–1868).^[1]

Geography edit

Cape Brewster is the easternmost point of the jagged and mountainous Savoia Peninsula and the northernmost point of the Blosseville Coast.^[2]

It is located at the end of the southern side of the mouth of the Scoresby Sound, opposite Cape Tobin (Uunarteq).^[3] The cape lies in the desolate and impressive area of the southern shore of the sound with steep dark basalt walls rising between 1,000 and 2,000 m (3,280-6,560 ft).^[4]