[1] Cape Henry Parish was visible in the distance and was named by Robert Peary after banker Henry Parish (1829-1917), President of the New York Life Insurance & Trust Co., and one of the founding members of the Peary Arctic Club in New York.

[3] Cape Henry Parish was finally charted with accuracy by J.P. Koch during the 1906-07 Danmark Expedition.

[4] Cape Henry Parish is located at the northern end of Herlufsholm Strand, in the eastern shore of Peary Land, 32 kilometres (104,987 ft) to the NW of Cape Eiler Rasmussen, Peary Land's easternmost point.

It lies off the NE side of the mouth of Hellefisk Fjord,[5] and 13 kilometres (42,651 ft) to the SE of Cape Clarence Wyckoff.

Mount Wyckoff, reaching a height of 850 metres (2,789 ft), rises above the shore of the headland.