[2] Cape Kane was named after Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane (1820 – 1857) at the time that it was the nearest land to the North Pole that had been put on the map.

[3] Cape Kane is a rocky headland located 14.5 km (9.0 mi) west of Cape Washington,[4] northeast of Conger Sound and off the western side of the mouth of Hunt Fjord.

[5] Hunt Fjord is under the influence of slow-moving glaciers discharging on both sides of Cape Kane that completely fill it and partially clog neighboring Conger Sound as well.

[6] Cape Kane is the westernmost point of the Roosevelt Land Peninsula.

Cape Christiansen is the headland on the other side of Conger Sound, at the northern end of Lockwood Island.