Academy Fjord or Academy Bay ( da, Academy Bugt) is a

fjord In physical geography, a fjord or fiord () is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier. Fjords exist on the coasts of Alaska, Antarctica, British Columbia, Chile, Denmark, Germany, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Ice ...

in northern

Greenland Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland is t ...

. Administratively it belongs to the

Avannaata Avannaata (, da, Det Nordlige, lit=The Northern) is a municipality of Greenland created on 1 January 2018 from the bulk of the former Qaasuitsup municipality. It encompasses an area of 522,700 km2 and has 10,726 inhabitants. Geography In ...

municipality. The fjord was named by

Robert Peary Robert Edwin Peary Sr. (; May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) was an American explorer and officer in the United States Navy who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for, in Apri ...

after the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.

Geography

The Academy Fjord opens to the northwest into the inner end of the Inglefield Gulf, close to its head and south of the

Harvard Islands The Harvard Islands ( da, Harward Øer) are an island group east of Qaanaaq in the Avannaata Municipality, northwestern Greenland. They are located near the head of the Inglefield Fjord, north of the mouth of the Academy Fjord and just east of the ...

. The fjord is bordered on both sides by

unglaciated A glacier (; ) is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires distinguishing features, such as ...

plateaux reaching approximately . The northeastern one,

Nunatarsuaq Nunatarsuaq (old spelling: ''Nunatarssuaq'', da, Hovgård Kystland) is a nunatak ( kl, nunataq) in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. Geography Nunatarsuaq is one of several nunataks in the Melville Bay region of Greenland, w ...

, is a

nunatak A nunatak (from Inuit ''nunataq'') is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge. They are also called glacial islands. Examples are natural pyramidal peaks. ...

dotted with lakes. The southwestern side of the fjord is fringed by a continuous wall of almost vertical cliffs extending from a promontory at the mouth of the fjord beyond the head into the glacier area. The northeastern side of the fjord is also flanked by cliffs, but near the mouth it is cut by a few deep valleys through which the inner Nunatarsuaq plateau is accessible.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute,'' p. 90 The head of the fjord is close to the head of

Olrik Fjord Olrik Fjord ( da, Olriks Fjord; kl, Kangerluarsussuaq) is a fjord in the Avannaata municipality, Northwestern Greenland. To the east the fjord opens into the Hvalsund, at the end of the Inglefield Gulf of the Baffin Bay.GoogleEarth This fjord w ...

, where the

Leidy Glacier Leidy Glacier ( da, Leidy Gletscher), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality. This glacier was named by Robert Peary after paleontologist, parasitologist, and anatomist Joseph Leidy (1823 ...

discharges from the

Greenland Ice Sheet The Greenland ice sheet ( da, Grønlands indlandsis, kl, Sermersuaq) is a vast body of ice covering , roughly near 80% of the surface of Greenland. It is sometimes referred to as an ice cap, or under the term ''inland ice'', or its Danish equiva ...

through the

Academy Glacier Foundation Ice Stream is a major ice stream in Antarctica's Pensacola Mountains. The ice stream drains northward for along the west side of the Patuxent Range and the Neptune Range to enter the Ronne Ice Shelf westward of Dufek Massif. The Unit ...

into both fjords.Greenland’s Leidy Glacier; NASA Earth Observatory
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References

External links

Qaanaaq 2001: mineral exploration reconnaissance in North-West Greenland
Fjords of Greenland {{Greenland-fjord-stub

Geography

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