Foster Bay ( da, Foster Bugt) is a large bay of the

Greenland Sea The Greenland Sea is a body of water that borders Greenland to the west, the Svalbard archipelago to the east, Fram Strait and the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Norwegian Sea and Iceland to the south. The Greenland Sea is often defined as p ...

in King Christian X Land, Eastern

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

NE Greenland National Park Northeast Greenland National Park ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaanni nuna eqqissisimatitaq, da, Grønlands Nationalpark) is the world's largest national park and the 10th largest protected area (the only larger protected areas all consist mostly of sea). ...

area.

Geography

The bay lies north-east of

Geographical Society Island Geographical Society Island () is an island off Foster Bay in northeastern Greenland. Geography The island has an area of 1,717 km2. It is mountainous with Svedenborg Fjeld as the highest point at 1,730 m. To the north lies the mouth o ...

. The Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord has its mouth in the bay, between Cape Mackenzie at the eastern end of Geographical Society Island and Cape Franklin, the southern end of the mainland's

Gauss Peninsula Gauss Peninsula ( da, Gauss Halvø) is a peninsula in eastern Greenland. Administratively this peninsula is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. History The second German North Polar Expedition 1869–70 originally gave the name ' ...

; Bantekoe Island lies in the bay off the mouth of the fjord.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 120 The eastern end of the

and the southern shore of Hold with Hope form the northern limit of the bay. Mackenzie Bay with Myggbukta is located roughly in the middle of this northern shore.

References

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