Cape Bridgman
Headland in northeast Greenland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cape Bridgman (Danish: Kap Bridgman) is a headland in the Wandel Sea, Arctic Ocean, northeast Greenland.
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Cape Bridgman
Kap Bridgman | |
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Coordinates: 83°25′N 26°42′W | |
Location | Northeast Greenland National Park, Greenland |
Offshore water bodies | Wandel Sea, Arctic Ocean |
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• Total | Arctic |
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The cape was named by Robert Peary after Herbert L. Bridgman, one of the members of the Peary Arctic Club in New York.[1]
The northernmost human remains of the Independence I culture, and thus the world, was described at Cape Bridgman by Peter Dawes in a letter to Eigil Knuth; they comprise three sites of tent rings and flagstones, although it is likely that this was a short-term expedition with permanent settlement at Frigg Fjord slightly to the south.[2]