Hagen Fjord is a fjord in north-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 ...
. It was named after
Niels Peter Høeg Hagen
Niels Peter Høeg Hagen (15 October 1877 – 15 November 1907) was a Danish military officer, polar explorer and cartographer. He participated and perished in the ill-fated Denmark expedition to NE Greenland in 1906.
The Denmark expedition
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, the cartographer of the main exploration team of the ill-fated
Denmark expedition
The Denmark expedition ( da, Danmark-ekspeditionen), also known as the Denmark Expedition to Greenland's Northeast Coast, and as the Danmark Expedition after the ship, was an expedition to the northeast of Greenland in 1906–1908.
Despite being ...
.
Geography
It opens into the southern shore of the
Independence Fjord
Independence Fjord or Independence Sound is a large fjord or sound in the eastern part of northern Greenland. It is about long and up to wide. Its mouth, opening to the Wandel Sea of the Arctic Ocean is located at .
In the area around Independe ...
at its northern end, between
J.C. Christensen Land to the west and
Mylius-Erichsen Land
Mylius-Erichsen Land is a peninsula in King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the NE Greenland National Park area.
Geography
Mylius-Erichsen Land is bounded in the north by the Independence Fjord, in th ...
to the east, near the confluence of
Denmark Sound
Danmark Fjord (), also known as Denmark Sound, is a fjord in northeast Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park.
The fjord was explored and named after the expedition ship '' Danmark'' at the time of the ill- ...
and Independence Fjord.
Prinsesse Thyra Ø
/ref> The Hagen Glacier
Hagen () is the Largest cities in Germany, 41st-largest List of cities and towns in Germany, city in Germany. The municipality is located in the States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located on the south eastern edge of the R ...
has its terminus at the head of the fjord.
File:North Greenland section-txu-pclmaps-oclc-8322829 a 1.jpg, Map of Northeastern Greenland
File:Karte Nordostgrönland Koch 1911.png, 1911 map of NE Greenland showing the Denmark Fjord
See also
* List of fjords of Greenland
References
Fjords of Greenland
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