Jokel Bay ( da, Jøkelbugten) is a large bay in North Eastern

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. The area of the bay is uninhabited. Administratively Jokel Bay and its surroundings belong to the

Northeast 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 List of largest protected areas in the world, largest protected area (the only large ...

. The bay was named after an

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word for glacier — is, Jökull— by the ill-fated

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. Jokel Bay is clogged by

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the year round.

Geography

Jokel Bay stretches for about 140 kilometers from north to south in the

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shore.

Lambert Land Lambert Land is a land area —possibly a peninsula or an island— in King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the NE Greenland National Park area. Geography Lambert Land is bounded in the north by the ...

and

Schnauder Island Schnauder Island is an uninhabited island of the Greenland Sea, Greenland. This island was named after German astronomer Max Schnauder (1860-1939) by the ill-fated Denmark Expedition. Geography Schnauder Island lies in the northern Jokel Bay a ...

lie at the northern end by the

Zachariae Isstrom Zachariae Isstrom ( da, Zachariae Isstrøm; Isstrøm being the Danish word for ice stream) is a large glacier located in King Frederick VIII Land, northeast Greenland. This glacier was named by the Denmark expedition 1906–08 after Georg Hugh R ...

glacier, while Duke of Orleans Land and Gamma Island are at the southern end. All along the shore of the bay the

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reaches down to the sea between

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and the coast is broken down into two alignments of small islands.''Aspects of the Coast of Northeast Greenland'', Bulletin of the American Geographical Society Vol. 41, No. 2 (1909), pp. 92-94
/ref> The

Pic de Gerlache Pic de Gerlache is a mountain in King Frederick VIII Land, NE Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. History This nunatak was named in 1905 by the Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans (1869–1926), Duke ...

, an important landmark for the first explorers of the area, rises from a

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a few kilometers inland in the central zone of the bay.

References

External links

A. Trolle, ''The Danish North-East Greenland Expedition'', The Geographical Journal Vol. 33, No. 1 (Jan., 1909), pp. 40-43+45-47+49+51-53+55-57+59-61
Bays of Greenland {{Greenland-geo-stub