De Dodes Fjord ( da, De Dødes Fjord, meaning "The Fjord of the Dead") 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 northwestern
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.
Geography
De Dodes Fjord opens to the south, east of the
Crimson Cliffs in the
Cape York area, close to the cape itself. It runs roughly in a NW/SE direction for less than and has a few small coves or recesses along its shore.
Salve Island is located to the east of its mouth.
is located next to it to the east, separated from it by a promontory.
[''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute,'' p. 84] The fjord is bordered on both sides by
glaciated plateaux.
See also
*
List of fjords of Greenland
References
External links
Collecting Samples at De Dodes Fjord
Fjords of Greenland
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