Dusen Fjord or Dusén Fjord is a
fjord
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in the
NE Greenland National Park 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
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, 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 Peter ...
and by the
NSIU ''(Norges Svalbard og Ishavsundersøkelser)''.
Promoted by the
Arctic Trading Co., 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 (; ) is the northernmost fjord system in the NE Greenland National Park area, East Greenland.
Geography
The Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord has its mouth in the Foster Bay of the Greenland Sea, between Cape Mackenzie at th ...
system. It cuts deep into
Ymer Island
Ymer Island () 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 expeditions to Spit ...
, 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.
is a small lake at the head of the fjord in the isthmus area.
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The
Vinter Islands lie east of
Cape Graah
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, 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 Greenland, Northern Greenland, a large area made up entirely of fjords; therefore Peary Land above not a fjord but a fjord area.In Greenland, Northeastern Greenland, a large area made ...
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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