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Cape Farewell

Cape Farewell is a headland on the southern shore of , Nunap Isua Archipelago, . As the southernmost point of the country, it is one of the important landmarks of Greenland.
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  • Type: Cape
  • Description: cape in Greenland
  • Also known as: “Cape Farewell, Greenland”, “Ománarssuaq”, “Statenhut”, “Ûmánarssuaq”, and “Umanarsuak”

Cape Farewell

Latitude
59.7736° or 59° 46′ 25″ north
Longitude
-43.91198° or 43° 54′ 43″ west
Open location code
98FRQ3FQ+C6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2057705888
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­cape
Geo­Names ID
3423843
Wiki­data ID
Q128097
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Cape Farewell” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “رأس فارول”
  • Azerbaijani: “Farvel burnu”
  • Basque: “Nunap Isua”
  • Breton: “Nunap Isua”
  • Catalan: “Cap Farewell”
  • Catalan: “Cap Farvel”
  • Cebuano: “Cape Farewell”
  • Chinese: “法韋爾角”
  • Chinese: “法韦尔角”
  • Cornish: “Nunap Isua”
  • Czech: “Kap Farvel”
  • Czech: “Mys Farvel”
  • Czech: “Uummannarsuaq”
  • Danish: “Kap Farvel”
  • Danish: “Uummannarsuaq”
  • Dutch: “Capo Farwel” (historical)
  • Dutch: “Kaap Farvel”
  • Dutch: “Kaap Vaarwel”
  • Dutch: “Kap Farvel”
  • Dutch: “Staatenhoek” (historical)
  • Estonian: “Nunap Isua”
  • Estonian: “Uummannarsuaq”
  • Finnish: “Cape Farewell”
  • Finnish: “Kap Farvel”
  • Finnish: “Nunap Isua”
  • French: “Cap Farewell”
  • French: “cap Farvel”
  • French: “Cap Farvel”
  • French: “Cape Farewell”
  • German: “Kap Farvel”
  • Greek: “Ακρωτήριο Φάρβελ”
  • Hebrew: “כף פארוול”
  • Hebrew: “כף פרוול”
  • Hungarian: “Farvel-fok”
  • Icelandic: “Hvarf”
  • Irish: “Nunap Isua”
  • Italian: “Capo Farvel”
  • Japanese: “ファーベル岬”
  • Kalaallisut: “Nunap Isua”
  • Kalaallisut: “Uummannarsuaq”
  • Latvian: “Farvelas rags”
  • Lithuanian: “Farvelo kyšulys”
  • Livvi: “Nunap Isua”
  • Macedonian: “Уманарсуак”
  • Macedonian: “Фарвел”
  • Macedonian: “Фервел”
  • Manx: “Nunap Isua”
  • Northern Sami: “Kap Farvel”
  • Northern Sami: “Nunap Isua”
  • Northern Sami: “Uummannarsuaq”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kapp Farvel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nunap Isua”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Umanarssuaq”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kapp Farvel”
  • Norwegian: “Kapp Farvel”
  • Norwegian: “Kapp Farvell”
  • Polish: “Farvel”
  • Polish: “Przylądek Farvel”
  • Portuguese: “Cabo Farvel”
  • Portuguese: “Uummannarsuaq”
  • Russian: “Уманарссуак”
  • Russian: “Уумманнарсуак”
  • Russian: “Фарвелл”
  • Russian: “Фарвель”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Nunap Isua”
  • Spanish: “Cabo Farewell”
  • Spanish: “Cabo Farvel”
  • Swedish: “Kap Farvel”
  • Swedish: “Uummannarsuaq”
  • Ukrainian: “Мис Фарвель”
  • Võro: “Nunap Isua”
  • Welsh: “Nunap Isua”
  • Western Frisian: “Kaap Farwol”
  • “Nunap Isua”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Cape Farewell”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.