Jørgen Brønlund Fjord or Bronlund Fjord is a fjord in southern

Peary Land Peary Land is a peninsula in northern Greenland, extending into the Arctic Ocean. It reaches from Victoria Fjord in the west to Independence Fjord in the south and southeast, and to the Arctic Ocean in the north, with Cape Morris Jesup, the north ...

, northern

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 polar explorer

Jørgen Brønlund Jørgen Brønlund (14 December 1877 – November 1907), was a Kalaallit, Greenlandic polar explorer, educator, and Catechism, catechist. He participated in two Danish expeditions to Greenland in the early 20th century. Early years Brønlund, ...

by the

Danmark 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 ...

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It runs roughly from NW to SE with its mouth located at the western end of

Melville Land Melville Land is an area in Peary Land, North Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.Google Maps History Robert Peary named the territory, together with Heilprin Land, in 1892 during his North Greenland Ex ...

, between

Cape Harald Moltke Cape Harald Moltke ( da, Kap Harald Moltke) is a headland in Peary Land, North Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. History The cape was named by Lauge Koch after Danish painter, author and explorer ...

to the east and Cape Knud Rasmussen to the west. It is about long and to wide, and opens out to

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 ...

in the south. The

Børglum River The Børglum River ( da, Børglum Elv) is a river in Peary Land, Greenland. It is the largest river in Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. The Børglum River Formation is named after the river. Fossi ...

has its mouth on the left side of the fjord.Nunat Aqqi; Stednavne
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Brønlundhus Brønlundhus, on some maps also Brønlundfjord, is a former research station and radio station located on the western shore of Jørgen Brønlund Fjord in southern Peary Land, in northern Greenland. It is named after Greenlandic Arctic researcher ...

, a former research station, is located on the west side close to the mouth of the fjord, and Kap Harald Moltke, another similar facility, on the east side. Brønlundhus was, until 1950, the northernmost radio outpost in the world. The northern shore is the type locality of the

Buen Formation The Buen Formation is a geologic formation and Lagerstätte in Peary Land, North Greenland. The shale preserves fossils dating back to the Early Cambrian period (Atdabanian in the local timescale, about 520 to 513 Ma).

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Helicopters are down away from Jorgen Bronlund Fjord, military crews are reunited and charts are reviewed, in the snow and ice of Greenland, in 1960.
Brondlund Fjord Peary Land {{Greenland-fjord-stub

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