Cape York (Greenland)

Cape York (Greenland)

:"There is also a Cape York Peninsula in Australia."

Cape York is a cape at the north-west coast of Greenland, in northern Baffin Bay.

It was the one of many places visited in 1894 by Admiral Robert Peary during his second expedition to the Arctic. It is mainly notable to be the site of discovery of the Cape York Meteorite.


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