Dusen Fjord or Dusén Fjord is a
fjord
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in the
NE Greenland National Park
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area, East
Greenland
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.
History
The fjord was named in 1899 by Swedish Arctic explorer
A.G. Nathorst during the expedition he led to Greenland. It was named after
Per Dusén, who surveyed the mouth of the fjord. The exploration, however, was incomplete and the fjord would only be thoroughly surveyed years later by
Lauge Koch
Lauge Koch (5 July 1892 – 5 June 1964) was a Danish geologist and Arctic explorer.
Biography
Lauge Koch was born in 1892 to Karl and Elisabeth Koch. His development as a scientist was greatly influenced by his father's second cousin Johan Pet ...
and by the
NSIU ''(Norges Svalbard og Ishavsundersøkelser)''.
Promoted by the
Arctic Trading Co. Arctic Trading Co. ( no, Arktisk Næringsdrift) was a Norwegian company founded on 24 June 1929.
The company had commercial interests in East Greenland in the areas of fishing, hunting and trapping. It also operated the Myggbukta radio and meteorol ...
, towards 1928 a number of cabins were built by the shores of this fjord, where the Norwegians had their hunting areas and fishing grounds.
Geography
The Dusen Fjord is part of the
Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord
Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord ( da, Kejser Franz Josef Fjord; kl, Kangerluk Kejser Franz Joseph) is a major fjord system in the NE Greenland National Park area, East Greenland.
Geography
The Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord has its mouth in the Foster Ba ...
system. It cuts deep into
Ymer Island
Ymer Island ( da, Ymer Ø) is an island in northeastern Greenland. The island is a part of Northeast Greenland National Park.
Ymer Island is named after the Swedish geographical journal ''Ymer'', which published many accounts of Swedish expedit ...
, almost dividing it in two, separating
Gunnar Anderson Land in the north, from the southern part of the island. The fjord runs roughly from west to east for about . Its mouth opens to the east just south of the entrance of Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord, near
Foster Bay.
Noa Lake
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is a small lake at the head of the fjord in the isthmus area.
[''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 120]
The
Vinter Islands lie east of
Cape Graah
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History
Capes were common in medieval Europe, especially when combined with a hood in the chaperon. Th ...
, on the northern side of the fjord's mouth.
Cape Wijkander is the headland on the southern side of the mouth.
See also
*
List of fjords of Greenland
This is a list of the most important fjords of Greenland:In Northern Greenland, a large area made up entirely of fjords; therefore Peary Land above not a fjord but a fjord area.In Northeastern Greenland, a large area made up entirely of fjor ...
References
External links
Den grønlandske Lods - Sejladsanvisninger ØstgrønlandOn the Map of King Oscar Fjord and Kaiser Franz Josef Fjord in North-Eastern GreenlandGreenland, muskoxen on Ymer Island
Fjords of Greenland
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