Kangerluluk, meaning 'the awful fjord', is a
fjord
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in the
King Frederick VI Coast
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,
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).
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municipality, southern
Greenland
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.
Deposits of rare minerals have been found in this fjord, as well as in neighbouring Igutsaat Fjord.
Geography
Kangerluluk extends in a roughly east–west direction for about 65 km between
Igutsaat Fjord
Igutsaat Fjord, also known as ''Igutsait 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 Kangerluluk. Geography
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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 east the fjord opens into the
North Atlantic Ocean
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between
Cape Olfert Fischer
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and the headland of
Qajartalik, just north of
Qeqertatsiaq Island.
The fjord has a large active
glacier
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at its head and is frequently blocked by ice.
Kangerluluk has four short branches on its southern coast. On the northern shore the Syenitbugt is a bay with an islet, located about 11 km from the fjord's mouth.
Mountains
There are high mountains on the sides of the fjord, a craggy group known as the
Kangerluluk Range
The Kangerluluk Range ( da, Kangerluluk Bjerge) is a mountain range in the King Frederick VI Coast, southeastern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Kujalleq Municipalities of Greenland, municipality.
This mountain group was nam ...
''(Kangerluluk Bjerge)'' rises to a height of on the northern side about 15 km within the fjord and continues westwards culminating in a massive
ultra-prominent peak
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at towering to a height of above the glaciers at the head of the fjord.
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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)'' rise to the south of the fjord and are relatively free from snow.
[Greenland Pilot - Danish Geodata Agency, p. 22]
Bibliography
Henrik Stendal, Robert Frei, Mike A. Hamilton, Wulf U. Mueller, ''The Palaeoproterozoic Kangerluluk gold–copper mineralization (southeast Greenland): Pb and Nd isotopic constraints on its timing and genesis''in Mineralium Deposita, March 2001, Volume 36, Issue 2, pp 177–188
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 fjo ...
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Syenite
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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