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Cape James Hill
Kap James Hill
Cape
1903 Robert Peary map section showing his 1900 explorations in far Northern Greenland.
1903 Robert Peary map section showing his 1900 explorations in far Northern Greenland.
Cape James Hill is located in Greenland
Cape James Hill
Cape James Hill
Coordinates: 83°36′N 30°25′W / 83.600°N 30.417°W / 83.600; -30.417
LocationNortheast Greenland National Park, Greenland
Offshore water bodiesWandel Sea, Arctic Ocean
Area
 • TotalArctic

Cape James Hill (Danish: Kap James Hill) is a headland in the Wandel Sea, Arctic Ocean, northeast Greenland.

The cape was named by Robert Peary after James J. Hill, one of the members of the Peary Arctic Club in New York.[1]

  1. ^ Robert E. Peary, Nearest the Pole: A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S. S. Roosevelt, 1905 -1906. p. 329

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