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København

British  
/ købənˈhaun /

noun

  1. the Danish name for Copenhagen

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Two million years ago the site of Kap København would have been a forested coastline where a river flowed into an estuary, Willerslev says.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 7, 2022

The research was conducted in an area called the Kap København Formation, which is in the northernmost part of Greenland.

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2022

The newly analyzed ancient DNA comes from a fossil-rich rock formation in Peary Land called Kap København, which preserves sediments from both land and a shallow ocean-side estuary.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 7, 2022

The researchers focused on the Kap København Formation, a sediment deposit nearly 100 meters thick that’s tucked in the mouth of a fjord.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 6, 2022

Today, the Kap København deposit is replete with petrified stumps and other remnants of an ancient boreal forest, but just one vertebrate fossil has ever been uncovered there: a hare’s tooth.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 6, 2022

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