Kangerluk, also known as ''Kangerluluarak'', is a
fjord
In physical geography, a fjord or fiord () is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier. Fjords exist on the coasts of Alaska, Antarctica, British Columbia, Chile, Denmark, Germany, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Ice ...
in the
King Frederick VI Coast
King Frederick VI Coast ( da, Kong Frederik VI Kyst) is a major geographic division of Greenland. It comprises the coastal area of Southeastern Greenland in Sermersooq and Kujalleq municipalities fronting the Irminger Sea of the North Atlantic Oce ...
,
Kujalleq
Kujalleq ( Greenlandic: , da, Den Syden, lit=The South) is a municipality on the southern tip of Greenland, operational from 1 January 2009. The administrative center of the municipality is in Qaqortoq (formerly called Julianehåb).
Creation
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municipality, southern
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 ...
.
History
In Kangerluk there is a small cove at a place named Saqqap Nuua (Serkertnua) where Lieutenant
Wilhelm August Graah
Wilhelm August Graah (1793–1863) was a Danish naval officer and Arctic explorer. Graah had mapped areas of West Greenland when he, in 1828–30, was sent by King Frederick VI of Denmark on an expedition to the unmapped eastern coast with th ...
was detained seventeen days in 1829 during his East Coast expedition owing to the difficult ice and weather conditions to the north.
Mountains
Kangerluk is a short fjord. Several glaciers discharge into the fjord from the
Graah Mountains
The Graah Mountains ( da, Graah Fjelde or ''Graah Bjerge'')Spencer Apollonio, ''Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland'', 2008 p. 33 are a mountain range in southeastern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Kuja ...
''(Graah Fjelde)'' rising to the west and displaying purple and blue strata.
[''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 100]
Kangerluk extends in a roughly northwest–southeast direction for between
Kangerluluk Fjord
Kangerluluk, meaning 'the awful fjord', is a fjord in the King Frederick VI Coast, Kujalleq municipality, southern Greenland.
Deposits of rare minerals have been found in this fjord, as well as in neighbouring Igutsaat Fjord. Geography
Kangerlulu ...
to the north and
Iluileq Fjord
Iluileq ( da, Danell Fjord) is a fjord in the King Frederick VI Coast, Kujalleq municipality, southern Greenland.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 100
This fjord was named by Wilhelm August Graah after
David D ...
(Danell Fjord) to the south. To the southeast the fjord opens into the
North Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the "Old World" of Africa, Europe an ...
NW of
Cape Discord
Cape Discord ( da, Kap Discord), also known as Kangeq, is a headland in the North Atlantic Ocean, southeast Greenland, Kujalleq municipality.
History
Cape Discord was named in old maps before Lieutenant Wilhelm August Graah passed it in 1829 dur ...
and the island of
Iluileq
Iluileq (named 'Ilivilik' in old maps) is an uninhabited island in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland.
History
Wilhelm August Graah (1793–1863) met groups of Southeast-Greenland Inuit on the island during his 1828–30 expedition ...
.
See also
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List of fjords of Greenland
This is a list of the most important fjords of Greenland:In Northern Greenland, a large area made up entirely of fjords; therefore Peary Land above not a fjord but a fjord area.In Northeastern Greenland, a large area made up entirely of fjor ...
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Syenite
Syenite is a coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock with a general composition similar to that of granite, but deficient in quartz, which, if present at all, occurs in relatively small concentrations (< 5%). Some syenites contain larger proport ...
References
External links
''Shallow-water, eruption-fed, mafic pyroclastic deposits along a Paleoproterozoic coastline: Kangerluluk volcano-sedimentary sequence, southeast Greenland''; Precambrian Research, Volume 101, Issues 2–4, June 2000, Pages 163–192
Fjords of Greenland
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