Cape Eiler Rasmussen


Cape Eiler Rasmussen is a broad headland in the Wandel Sea, Arctic Ocean, northernmost Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast [Greenland National Park].
This cape is Peary Land's easternmost point. It was named after Danish painter Eiler Rasmussen during the Danish Bicentenary Jubilee Expedition of 1920-23.

Geography

Cape Eiler Rasmussen is located at the eastern end of Peary Land in the middle stretch of the shore of Herlufsholm Strand, to the SE of Cape [Henry Parish]. Mudder Bay lies to the south by Cape Eigil Knuth.
There is pack ice off the shore all year round.