København

/ købənˈhaun /

noun

1. the Danish name for Copenhagen

Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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

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"In fact, from the Kap København, the only animals that have ever been discovered through macro fossils are a hare's tooth and a dung beetle. So people had no idea what kind of fauna was there back then," explained Prof Willerslev.

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

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