Gaasefjord ( kl, Nertivit Kangersivat; da, Gåsefjord, meaning 'Goose Fjord') is a

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, eastern

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. This fjord is part of the

Scoresby Sound Scoresby Sound (Danish: ''Scoresby Sund'', Greenlandic: ''Kangertittivaq'') is a large fjord system of the Greenland Sea on the eastern coast of Greenland. It has a tree-like structure, with a main body approximately Sermersooq Sermersooq (, da, sted med meget is, lit=place of much ice) is a municipality in Greenland, formed on 1 January 2009 from five earlier, smaller municipalities. Its administrative seat is the city of Nuuk (formerly called Godthåb), the capital ...

municipality.

History

The Gåsefjord was named in 1891 by

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during his 1891–92 East Greenland Expedition. It was named after the

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, for the

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and the

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are common in the region. Other names given by former surveyors were ''Sydfjorden'', by Ragnvald Knudsen, and ''Taagefjord'' by

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. The Greenlandic name ''Nertivit Kangersivat'' is being used in present-day maps, although originally the fjord was known as ''Oqqummut Kangertiva''.Place names, NE Greenland
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Geography

In the southern Scoresby Sound, between

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to the north and Cape Stevenson to the south, there are the mouths of two fjords that go in a roughly southwestern direction. The northern branch is the

Fonfjord Fonfjord ( kl, Ujuaakajiip Kangertiva; da, Fønfjord, meaning 'Foehn Fjord') is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland. This fjord is part of the Scoresby Sound system.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute' ...

''(Fønfjord)'' and the southern is the much wider mouth of the Gaasefjord. Gåseland is the peninsula that lies between these two fjords. To the north the fjord is bound by Gaaseland and to the south by the Geikie Plateau. The southern shore of Gaasefjord is lined by

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cliffs that continue eastward. The following glaciers have their

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in the shores of the fjord: (from east to west) Syd Glacier at the mouth, Magga Dang Glacier, Kista Dang Glacier and the Gåse Glacier.

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Holocene glacimarine sedimentation, inner Scoresby Sund

Fjords of Greenland Scoresby Sound {{Greenland-fjord-stub

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