Tasiilap Karra

Tasiilap Karra^[1] or Cape Gustav Holm (Danish: Kap Gustav Holm) is a headland in eastern Greenland, Sermersooq municipality.

Tasiilap Karra Cape Gustav Holm
Cape
Tasiilap Karra
Coordinates: 66°34′N 34°22′W
Location	Sermersooq, Greenland
Offshore water bodies	North Atlantic Ocean
Area
• Total	Arctic

It was named after officer of the Danish Navy and Arctic explorer Gustav Holm (1849 – 1940).

Geography

Cape Gustav Holm is located near the Arctic Circle on the shores of the Denmark Strait coast of the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Tasiilaq.^[2]

This cape is the southern end of a narrow mountainous peninsula east of the Ikersuak Fjord which extends in a NE/SW direction, rising to a height of 966 m. The islet of Nanertalik lies 1.2 km off a small projection on the shore 5 km northeast of the cape and Cape Buchholz is located a further 7 km to the northeast along the coast.^[3] The Northern K.J.V. Steenstrup Glacier has its terminus west of the cape.^[4]

Map of Greenland section.

View of the coastline 8 km to the west of Cape Gustav Holm with the Northern K.J.V. Steenstrup Glacier on the right by the mouth of the Ikertivaq Fjord.