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 ...
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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 ...
:In Northern Greenland, a large area made up entirely of fjords; therefore
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 nort ...
above not a fjord but a fjord area.In Northeastern Greenland, a large area made up entirely of fjords; therefore is the Scoresby Sund above not a fjord but a fjord area.
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Alanngorsuaq Fjord
Alanngorsuaq Fjord, also known as Coppermine Bay ( da, Kobberminebugt), is a fjord in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland. At the mouth of the fjord the coastline of southwestern Greenland turns to the east towards Qaqortoq.
Geograp ...
Amerloq Fjord
Amerloq Fjord is a long fjord in the Qeqqata municipality in western Greenland. The fjord empties into the Davis Strait just south of Sisimiut, whose former Inuit name was also "Amerloq".
History
The Amerloq Fjord then known as Rammel's Fjord ...
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Ammassalik Fjord
Ammassalik Fjord (old spelling: ''Angmagssalik Fjord'') is a long fjord in the Sermersooq municipality in southeastern Greenland.
Geography
The head of the fjord at is formed by the confluence of two narrow, tributary fjords: ''Qingertivaq ...
Kangikitsua
Anorituup Kangerlua, also known as Anoritoq or Anortek Fjord, is a fjord in King Frederick VI Coast, southern Greenland.
Geography
This fjord marks the border between the Sermersooq municipality to the north and the Kujalleq municipality to th ...
Ardencaple Fjord
Ardencaple Fjord is a fjord in King Christian X Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. History
Ardencaple Fjord was named by Douglas Clavering as "Ardencaple Inlet" in 1823, but the in ...
Arfersiorfik Fjord
Arfersiorfik Fjord is a large fjord along the western coast of Greenland, between the town of Aasiaat to the north and Nordre Strømfjord to the south. The name of this inlet means "the place where the whale was sighted".
Geography
The entrance t ...
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Avaqqat Kangerluat
Avaqqat Kangerluat, also known as ''Avarqqat Kangerluat'', ''Avaqqat Kangerlua'' and ''Puiagtoq Fjord'', is a fjord in the King Frederick VI Coast, Kujalleq municipality, southern Greenland. History
This fjord was referred to as "Auarket" by Lieute ...
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Puiattoq
Avaqqat Kangerluat, also known as ''Avarqqat Kangerluat'', ''Avaqqat Kangerlua'' and ''Puiagtoq Fjord'', is a fjord in the King Frederick VI Coast, Kujalleq municipality, southern Greenland. History
This fjord was referred to as "Auarket" by Lieute ...
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Qassialik
Avaqqat Kangerluat, also known as ''Avarqqat Kangerluat'', ''Avaqqat Kangerlua'' and ''Puiagtoq Fjord'', is a fjord in the King Frederick VI Coast, Kujalleq municipality, southern Greenland. History
This fjord was referred to as "Auarket" by Lieute ...
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Bernstorff Fjord
Bernstorff Fjord ( da, Bernstorff Isfjord; kl, Kangertittivaq) is a fjord in King Frederick VI Coast, eastern Greenland.
Administratively it is part of the Sermersooq municipality. The fjord was named after Danish statesman Andreas Peter Bernst ...
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Bessel Fjord
Bessel Fjord is a fjord in northeastern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the NE Greenland National Park area. History
The area around the mouth of this fjord was referred to as "Bessel Bay" at the time of the 1869–70 Second German Nor ...
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Bessel Fjord, NW Greenland
Bessel Fjord ( da, Bessels Fjord) is a fjord in northwestern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.
Knud Rasmussen described the fjord entrance in the following terms:
Geography
Bessel Fjord stretches roughly fro ...
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Bowdoin Fjord
Bowdoin Fjord is a fjord in northern Greenland. To the south the fjord opens into the Inglefield Gulf of the Baffin Bay. GoogleEarth
This fjord was named by Robert Peary after his alma mater, Bowdoin College. It was the subject of paintings by ...
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Carlsberg Fjord
Carlsberg Fjord ( kl, Kangerterajitta Itterterilaq) is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland.
Administratively it lies in the Sermersooq Municipality. History
This fjord was first noted by British explorer William Scoresby (1789 – ...
(Kangerterajitta Itterterilaa)
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Cass Fjord
Cass Fjord is a fjord in northern Greenland. To the southwest, the fjord opens into the Kane Basin of the Nares Strait.
Geography
The Cass Fjord opens to the SW at the northern end of Peabody Bay, north of Cape Clay. Cass Fjord forms Washington L ...
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Danmark Fjord
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 ...
Dijmphna Sound
The Dijmphna Sound ( da, Dijmphna Sund) is a sound in King Frederick VIII Land, Northeast Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. History
The sound was named by the 1906-1908 Denmark expedition after ...
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Hekla Sound
The Hekla Sound ( da, Hekla Sund) is a sound in King Frederick VIII Land, Northeast Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.Google Earth History
The sound was named by the ill-fated 1906-1908 Denmark ...
Fleming Fjord
Fleming Fjord is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland.
Administratively it lies in the Sermersooq Municipality. History
This fjord was named "Fleming Inlet" by British explorer William Scoresby (1789 – 1857) after Scottish scholar ...
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Foulk Fjord
Foulk Fjord is a fjord in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland.
Geography
Located near Reindeer Point, the fjord is about wide and several miles long with cliffs on each side. Brother John's Glacier terminates at the eastern end of ...
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Frederick E. Hyde Fjord
Frederick E. Hyde Fjord is a fjord in Peary Land, far northern Greenland.
History
The fjord was named by Robert Peary during his 1900 expedition after Frederick Erastus Hyde, one of the founding members and first vice-president of the Peary Arct ...
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Graah Fjord
Graah Fjord, also known as Devold Fjord and Langenæs Fjord, is a fjord in King Frederick VI Coast, eastern Greenland.
Administratively it is part of the Sermersooq municipality.
History
There are remains of ancient Inuit settlements of the sout ...
Granville Fjord
Granville Fjord ( kl, Iterlassuaq) is a fjord in Avannaata municipality, Northwest Greenland.
Geography
Granville Fjord is located in Steensby Land, in the stretch of coast between Cape York (Greenland), Cape York and Cape Alexander, Greenland, Ca ...
Hagen Fjord
Hagen Fjord is a fjord in north-eastern Greenland. It was named after Niels Peter Høeg Hagen, the cartographer of the main exploration team of the ill-fated Denmark expedition.
Geography
It opens into the southern shore of the Independence Fjord ...
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
Igut ...
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Ikerasak Fjord
Ikerasak Fjord ( kl, Ikerasaup Sullua, also Qarajaq Icefjord, or da, Qarajaqs Isfjord) is a fjord in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland.
Geography
The fjord constitutes the innermost part of the Uummannaq Fjord at the base of ...
Ikertooq Fjord
Ikertooq Fjord (old spelling: ''Ikertôq'') is a long fjord in the Qeqqata municipality in western Greenland. The fjord empties into Davis Strait south of Sisimiut.
Geography
The upper part of the fjord, a confluence of three tributary inle ...
Ilulissat Icefjord
Ilulissat Icefjord ( kl, Ilulissat Kangerlua) is a fjord in western Greenland. Located 250 km north of the Arctic Circle, the Ilulissat Icefjord runs west from the Greenland ice sheet to Disko Bay just south of Ilulissat town. Ilulissat Icefj ...
Ilulissat Icefjord
Ilulissat Icefjord ( kl, Ilulissat Kangerlua) is a fjord in western Greenland. Located 250 km north of the Arctic Circle, the Ilulissat Icefjord runs west from the Greenland ice sheet to Disko Bay just south of Ilulissat town. Ilulissat Icefj ...
is the only
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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 ...
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 ...
Johan Petersen Fjord
Johan Petersen Fjord, also known as Petersen Bay ( da, Petersen Bugt), is a fjord in King Christian IX Land, Eastern Greenland.
The fjord is named after Danish Arctic explorer Johan Petersen (1813–1880).
Geography
This fjord is located on the ...
Kangerluaraq
Kangerluaraq, old spelling ''Kangerdluaraq'', is a fjord in the King Frederick VI Coast, Kujalleq municipality, southern Greenland. Geography
Kangerluaraq is a narrow fjord lying between the Kuutseq to the north and the Nattoralik and Nanuuseq f ...
Kangerluk Fjord
Kangerluk, also known as ''Kangerluluarak'', is a fjord in the King Frederick VI Coast, Kujalleq municipality, southern Greenland.
History
In Kangerluk there is a small cove at a place named Saqqap Nuua (Serkertnua) where Lieutenant Wilhelm Augu ...
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Kangerluluk
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 ...
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Kangerlussuaq Fjord
Kangerlussuaq Fjord (old spelling: ''Kangerdlugssuaq'', da, Søndre Strømfjord) is a long fjord in the Qeqqata municipality in central-western Greenland. The fjord is long and between and wide, flowing from the estuary of Qinnguata Kuussua r ...
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Kangerlussuaq Fjord, East Greenland
Kangerlussuaq Fjord ( kl, Kangerlussuaq, meaning 'large fjord'; da, Stor Fjord) is a fjord in eastern Greenland. It is part of the Sermersooq municipality.
The fjord was named by the East-Greenland Coast Expedition led by Georg Carl Amdrup in 1 ...
Kangerlussuatsiaq Fjord
Kangerlussuatsiaq Fjord (old spelling: ''Kangerdlugssuatsiaq'', da, Evighedsfjorden) is a fjord in the Qeqqata municipality in western Greenland. Taking its source in the tidewater glaciers draining the Maniitsoq ice cap, the fjord flows in a ...
Kangertittivatsiaq
Kangertittivatsiaq, old spelling ''Kangerdlugssuatsiak'', meaning "The rather large fjord," is a fjord in Sermersooq, Eastern Greenland.
There are numerous ruins of former relatively large Inuit settlements near the mouth of the fjord. These were ...
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Nordfjord
Nordfjord ( en, Northern fjord—in contrast to Sunnfjord) is a traditional district of Norway.
Geography
The region is located in the northern part of Vestland county in Western Norway. It centers on the Nordfjorden and it comprises the muni ...
Kattertooq
Kattertooq, meaning 'where there is much blue ice' in the Greenlandic language,) is a fjord of the King Frederick VI Coast in the Sermersooq municipality, southeastern Greenland.GoogleEarth Geography
Kattertooq is located north of the King Dan P ...
Knighton Fjord
Knighton Fjord is a fjord in King Christian IX Land, Eastern Greenland. Knighton Fjordsa Geonames.org (cc-by) post updated 2012-01-18; database download sa 2015-05-23 Administratively, Knighton Fjord and its surroundings belong to the Sermersooq ...
Lindenow Fjord
Lindenow Fjord or Kangerlussuatsiaq, is a fjord in the King Frederick VI Coast, Kujalleq municipality, southern Greenland. History
Igdlukulik, an archaeological site with the ruins of a former Inuit settlement lies by the shore where the Nørrear ...
MacCormick Fjord
MacCormick Fjord ( kl, Iterlassuaq) is a fjord in northern Greenland. To the southwest, the fjord opens into the Murchison Sound of the Baffin Bay.GoogleEarth
History
In 1891 a spot in the southern shore near the mouth of the fjord was chosen as ...
Mørkefjord
Mørkefjord, meaning in Danish "The dark fjord," is a fjord in King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland.
History
Mørkefjord was named by the 1906-1908 Denmark expedition, which established a second weather station at Mørkefjord, in order ...
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Nansen Fjord
Nansen Fjord is a fjord in King Christian IX Land, Eastern Greenland. It is part of the Sermersooq municipality. Geography
This fjord lies in an indented area of the Blosseville Coast where there is a succession of rocky headlands with active glac ...
Nathorst Fjord
Alfred Gabriel Nathorst (7 November 1850 – 20 January 1921) was a Swedish Arctic explorer, geologist, and palaeobotanist.
Life
He was born in Väderbrunn in Sweden.
Nathorst's interest in geology was awoken by Charles Lyell’s ‘’P ...
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Nattoralik
Nattoralik, old spelling ''Nagtoralik'', is a fjord in the King Frederick VI Coast, Kujalleq municipality, southern Greenland.
There is a Paleo-Eskimo archaeological site on the northern shore of the fjord.
Geography
Nattoralik is a short fjord ...
Nioghalvfjerd Fjord
Nioghalvfjerdsbrae (), sometimes referred to as " 79 N Glacier", is a large glacier located in King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. It drains an area of of the Greenland Ice Sheet with a flux (quantity of ice moved from the land to ...
Nuup Kangerlua
Nuup Kangerlua is a long fjord in the Sermersooq municipalities of Greenland, municipality in southwestern Greenland. It was formerly known by its colonial name as Godthaab Fjord ( da, Godthåbsfjorden), Gilbert Sound and Baal's River.Nicoll, Ja ...
Paatusoq
Paatusoq, mentioned as 'Patursok' by Wilhelm August Graah, is a fjord in the King Frederick VI Coast, Kujalleq municipality, southeastern Greenland. Its name means "The one with the big mouth" in the Greenlandic language.
Geography
Paatusoq Fjord ...
Petermann Fjord
Petermann Fjord is a fjord in northwestern Greenland. Administratively it marks the boundary between the Avannaata municipality and the Northeast Greenland National Park.
The fjord and its glacier are named after German cartographer August Heinri ...
Sehested Fjord
Sehested Fjord ( kl, Uummannap Kangertiva)) is a fjord of the King Frederick VI Coast in the Sermersooq municipality, southeastern Greenland.
This fjord was named in 1829 by Lieutenant W. A. Graah after Danish Admiral Christen Thomesen Sehested.
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Sermilik
Sermilik ( da, Egede og Rothes Fjord) is a fjord in eastern Greenland. It is part of the Sermersooq municipality.
The settlement of Tasiilaq is located about 15 km to the east of the mouth of the fjord.
Geography
This fjord, whose Gre ...
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Sherard Osborn Fjord
Sherard Osborn Fjord is a fjord in northern Greenland. To the NNW, the fjord opens into the Lincoln Sea. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.
This fjord was named after Royal Navy admiral and Arctic explorer She ...
Siorapaluup Kangerlua
Siorapaluup Kangerlua, also known as Robertson Fjord and Robertson Bay, is a fjord in northern Greenland. To the southwest, the fjord opens into the Murchison Sound of the Baffin Bay.GoogleEarth Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata munic ...
(Robertson Fjord)
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Southern Sermilik
Southern Sermilik ( da, Søndre Sermilik) is a fjord in southwestern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Kujalleq municipality.
Geography
The fjord is oriented in a roughly NE/SW direction, to the southwest the Southern Sermilik Fjord o ...
Tasermiut Fjord
Tasermiut Fjord is a 70-kilometre-long fjord in southwestern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Kujalleq municipality. Nanortalik Island is located near the mouth of the fjord.
Tasermiut Fjord has some of the very few growths of d ...
Tunulliarfik Fjord
Tunulliarfik Fjord (old spelling: ''Tunugdliarfik'') is a fjord near Qaqortoq in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland. It is the inner section of Skovfjord (Skovfjorden). In times of the Norse settlement in southern Greenland, it was kn ...
Uummannaq Fjord
Uummannaq Fjord is a large fjord system in the northern part of western Greenland, the largest after Kangertittivaq fjord in eastern Greenland. It has a roughly south-east to west-north-west orientation, emptying into the Baffin Bay in the nor ...
Wolstenholme Fjord
Wolstenholme Fjord ( kl, Uummannap Kangerlua) is a fjord in Avannaata municipality, Northwest Greenland. It is located to the north of the Thule Air Base and adjacent to the abandoned Inuit settlement of Narsaarsuk.
The area was contaminated in ...
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Godthab Gulf
Godthab Gulf ( da, Godthåb Golf), also known as Godthaab Golf, Clavering Fjord, Clavering Sound and Inner Bay, is a fjord in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. History ...
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Loch Fyne
Loch Fyne ( gd, Loch Fìne, ; meaning "Loch of the Vine/Wine"), is a sea loch off the Firth of Clyde and forms part of the coast of the Cowal peninsula. Located on the west coast of Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It extends inland from the Sound o ...
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Wordie Bay (Greenland)
Wordie Bay ( da, Wordie Bugt) is a bay in eastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. History
The bay appeared as "Wordiebukta" on the 1932 Norwegian Svalbard and Arctic Ocean Survey ''Norges Svalb ...
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Copeland Fjord Copeland or Copeland's may refer to:
Places
Australia
* Copeland, New South Wales
Canada
* Copeland Islands (Nunavut)
* Copeland Islands Marine Provincial Park, in the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia
* Mount Copeland, also Copeland Rid ...
Young Sound
Young Sound ( da, Young Sund) is a marine channel with a fjord structure in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. History
The fjord was given the name "Young’s Bay" by ...
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Tyrolerfjord
Tyrolerfjord is a fjord in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.
History
During the 1869–70 Second German North Polar Expedition of Carl Koldewey this body of water wa ...
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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 ...
Jørgen Brønlund Fjord
Jørgen Brønlund Fjord or Bronlund Fjord is a fjord in southern Peary Land, northern Greenland.
It was named after polar explorer Jørgen Brønlund by the Danmark expedition.
Geography
It runs roughly from NW to SE with its mouth located at t ...
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Hagen Fjord
Hagen Fjord is a fjord in north-eastern Greenland. It was named after Niels Peter Høeg Hagen, the cartographer of the main exploration team of the ill-fated Denmark expedition.
Geography
It opens into the southern shore of the Independence Fjord ...
Bowdoin Fjord
Bowdoin Fjord is a fjord in northern Greenland. To the south the fjord opens into the Inglefield Gulf of the Baffin Bay. GoogleEarth
This fjord was named by Robert Peary after his alma mater, Bowdoin College. It was the subject of paintings by ...
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Academy Fjord
Academy Fjord or Academy Bay ( da, Academy Bugt) is a fjord in northern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.
The fjord was named by Robert Peary after the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.
Geography
The ...
Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord
Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord ( da, Kejser Franz Josef Fjord; kl, Kangerluk Kejser Franz Joseph) is a major fjord system in the NE Greenland National Park area, East Greenland.
Geography
The Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord has its mouth in the Foster Ba ...
Isfjord
Isfjord, meaning 'Ice Fjord' in the Danish language, is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland.
The Isfjord is part of the Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord complex''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 120 in ...
Nordfjord
Nordfjord ( en, Northern fjord—in contrast to Sunnfjord) is a traditional district of Norway.
Geography
The region is located in the northern part of Vestland county in Western Norway. It centers on the Nordfjorden and it comprises the muni ...
Nordfjord
Nordfjord ( en, Northern fjord—in contrast to Sunnfjord) is a traditional district of Norway.
Geography
The region is located in the northern part of Vestland county in Western Norway. It centers on the Nordfjorden and it comprises the muni ...
Kangertittivatsiaq
Kangertittivatsiaq, old spelling ''Kangerdlugssuatsiak'', meaning "The rather large fjord," is a fjord in Sermersooq, Eastern Greenland.
There are numerous ruins of former relatively large Inuit settlements near the mouth of the fjord. These were ...
Nordfjord
Nordfjord ( en, Northern fjord—in contrast to Sunnfjord) is a traditional district of Norway.
Geography
The region is located in the northern part of Vestland county in Western Norway. It centers on the Nordfjorden and it comprises the muni ...
Antarctic Sound
The Antarctic Sound is a body of water about long and from wide, separating the Joinville Island group from the northeast end of the Antarctic Peninsula. The sound was named by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Otto Nordenskjöld for the ...
Kempe Fjord
Kempe Fjord ( da, Kempes Fjord) is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland.
Administratively it lies in the Northeast Greenland National Park area. This fjord is part of the King Oscar Fjord system.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Gr ...
Narwhal Sound
The narwhal, also known as a narwhale (''Monodon monoceros''), is a medium-sized toothed whale that possesses a large "tusk" from a protruding canine tooth. It lives year-round in the Arctic waters around Greenland, Canada and Russia. It is ...
Antarctic Haven
Antarctic Haven ( da, Antarctic Havn) is a bay in King Christian X Land, Northeastern Greenland.
Administratively it lies in the Northeast Greenland National Park area.
History
This natural harbour was named ''"Antarctics Hamn"'' by Swedish A ...
Vega Sound
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Davy Sound
The Davy Sound ( da, Davy Sund) is a sound in King Christian X Land, Northeast Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. History
The sound was named and put on the map by William Scoresby (1789 – 1857) ...
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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 nort ...
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Benedict Fjord
Benedict Fjord is a fjord in Peary Land, northern Greenland. To the north, the fjord opens into the Lincoln Sea of the Arctic Ocean.
The fjord was named by Robert Peary in honor of New York banker and yachtsman E. C. Benedict, one of the promin ...
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De Long Fjord
De Long Fjord is a fjord system in Peary Land, northern Greenland. To the northwest, the fjord opens into the Lincoln Sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.
The fjord is named after arctic explorer George ...
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Thomas Thomsen Fjord
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People
* List of people with given name Thomas
* Thomas (name)
* Thomas (surname)
* Saint Thomas (disambiguation)
* Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church
* Thomas t ...
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Adolf Jensen Fjord
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Frederick E. Hyde Fjord
Frederick E. Hyde Fjord is a fjord in Peary Land, far northern Greenland.
History
The fjord was named by Robert Peary during his 1900 expedition after Frederick Erastus Hyde, one of the founding members and first vice-president of the Peary Arct ...
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Citronen Fjord
Citronen Fjord is a fjord in Peary Land, far northern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.
The name of the fjord was given by Danish Arctic explorer Eigil Knuth during the Danish Peary Land Expedition ...
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Freja Fjord
Freja Fjord ( da, Frejas Fjord) is a fjord in Peary Land, far northern Greenland.Google Maps
The fjord is mentioned in a letter from geologist Peter Dawes to Eigil Knuth regarding a possible archaeological discovery.''The Northernmost Ruins of ...
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Frigg Fjord
Frigg Fjord ( da, Friggs Fjord) is a fjord in Peary Land, far northern Greenland.
The archaeological remains in the northern shore and at the head of this fjord belong to the northernmost human settlements in human history.Bjarne Grønnow, Jens Fo ...
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Odin Fjord
Odin Fjord ( da, Odins Fjord) is a fjord in Peary Land, far northern Greenland.Google Maps
Robert Peary did not explore the Frederick E. Hyde Fjord owing to thick fog at its mouth. The inner fjord branches were mapped and named by Lauge Koch in ...
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Thor Fjord
Thor Fjord ( da, Thors Fjord) is a fjord in Peary Land, far northern Greenland.Google Maps
Robert Peary did not explore the Frederick E. Hyde Fjord owing to thick fog at its mouth. The inner fjord branches were mapped and named by Lauge Koch in ...
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G.B. Schley Fjord
G.B. Schley Fjord is a fjord in Peary Land, northern Greenland. To the east, the fjord opens into the Wandel Sea of the Arctic Ocean.
The fjord was named by Robert Peary after G.B. Schley, one of the founding members of the Peary Arctic Club in ...
Hunt Fjord
Hunt Fjord is a fjord in Peary Land, northern Greenland. To the north the fjord has its mouth in the Lincoln Sea of the Arctic Ocean. Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park.
This fjord was named by Robert Peary in 19 ...
Navarana Fjord
Navarana Fjord is a fjord in Peary Land, far northern Greenland. It is named after an Inuit woman.
In 1984 important zinc and barium deposits were discovered in the Navarana Fjord. Australian Ironbark Zinc corporation was granted an exploration ...
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Jewell Fjord
Jewell Fjord, also known as "Jewell Inlet", is a fjord in Peary Land, northern Greenland. To the northwest, the fjord opens into the Lincoln Sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. History
The fjord is named ...
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Lemming Fjord
A lemming is a small rodent, usually found in or near the Arctic in tundra biomes. Lemmings form the subfamily Arvicolinae (also known as Microtinae) together with voles and muskrats, which form part of the superfamily Muroidea, which also inclu ...
Nordenskiöld Fjord
Nordenskiöld Fjord or Nordenskjöld Fjord is a fjord in Peary Land, northern Greenland. Geography
To the northwest the fjord opens into the Lincoln Sea of the Arctic Ocean. It separates the island of Nares Land, to the west of the fjord, from Fr ...
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Sands Fjord
Sands Fjord is a fjord in Peary Land, northern Greenland. To the north, the fjord opens into the Lincoln Sea of the Arctic Ocean. Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park.
The fjord was named by Robert Peary in honor ...
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Victoria Fjord
Victoria Fjord, also known as Victoria Inlet, is a large fjord in northern Greenland.
Its eastern shore forms the western limit of Peary Land.
Geography
To the northwest the fjord opens into the Lincoln Sea of the Arctic Ocean. Wulff Land forms t ...
Prince Christian Sound
The Prince Christian Sound (Greenlandic: Ikerasassuaq; Danish:Prins Christians Sund) is a waterway in Southern Greenland.
It separates the mainland from Sammisoq (Christian IV Island) and other islands of the Cape Farewell Archipelago near the so ...
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Kangerluk Fjord
Kangerluk, also known as ''Kangerluluarak'', is a fjord in the King Frederick VI Coast, Kujalleq municipality, southern Greenland.
History
In Kangerluk there is a small cove at a place named Saqqap Nuua (Serkertnua) where Lieutenant Wilhelm Augu ...
Scoresby Sound
Scoresby Sound (Danish: ''Scoresby Sund'', Greenlandic: ''Kangertittivaq'') is a large fjord system of the Greenland Sea on the eastern coast of Greenland. It has a tree-like structure, with a main body approximately
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Fonfjord
Fonfjord ( kl, Ujuaakajiip Kangertiva; da, Fønfjord, meaning 'Foehn Fjord') is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland.
This fjord is part of the Scoresby Sound system.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute' ...
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Rode Fjord
Rode Fjord ( da, Røde Fjord, meaning 'Red Fjord') is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland.
The Rode Fjord is part of the Scoresby Sound complex''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 115 in the area of ...
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Vestfjord
Vestfjord, meaning "West Fjord" in the Danish language, is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland.
This fjord is part of the Scoresby Sound system in the area of Sermersooq municipality. Geography
This tributary fjord extends between ...
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Gaasefjord
Gaasefjord ( kl, Nertivit Kangersivat; da, Gåsefjord, meaning 'Goose Fjord') is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland.
This fjord is part of the Scoresby Sound system.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute' ...
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Hurry Inlet
Hurry Inlet ( da, Hurry Fjord; kl, Kangerterajiva, meaning 'The Little Fjord') is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland.
This fjord is part of the Scoresby Sound system. Administratively it lies in the area of Sermersooq municipality ...
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Ofjord
Ofjord ( kl, Ikaasakajik; da, Øfjord, meaning 'Island Fjord') is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland.
This fjord is part of the Scoresby Sound system.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 115 Admi ...
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Hare Fjord
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Rype Fjord
Rype Fjord ( kl, Aqissip Kangertiva; da, Rypefjord, meaning 'Grouse Fjord') is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland.
This fjord is part of the Scoresby Sound system in the area of Sermersooq municipality.
Geography
The to wide ...
Nordvestfjord
Nordvestfjord, meaning 'Northwest Fjord', ( kl, Kangertertivarmît Kangertivat) is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland.
Administratively most of its length lies in the Northeast Greenland National Park area, at the border of Sermer ...
Sermilik
Sermilik ( da, Egede og Rothes Fjord) is a fjord in eastern Greenland. It is part of the Sermersooq municipality.
The settlement of Tasiilaq is located about 15 km to the east of the mouth of the fjord.
Geography
This fjord, whose Gre ...
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Johan Petersen Fjord
Johan Petersen Fjord, also known as Petersen Bay ( da, Petersen Bugt), is a fjord in King Christian IX Land, Eastern Greenland.
The fjord is named after Danish Arctic explorer Johan Petersen (1813–1880).
Geography
This fjord is located on the ...
Skaer Fjord
Skaer Fjord, ( da, Skærfjorden, meaning "Reef Fjord") is a fjord in King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland.
History
Skaerfjorden was named by the 1906-1908 Denmark expedition, which named it thus owing to the numerous reefs and skerr ...
Timmiarmiut Fjord
Timmiarmiut Fjord (old spelling 'Tingmiarmiut Fjord'; kl, Timmiarmiit Kangertivat)) is a fjord of the King Frederick VI Coast in the Sermersooq municipality, southeastern Greenland.
Geography
Timmiarmiut Fjord is located north of Sikuijivitteq ...
Annex Lake
Annex or Annexe refers to a building joined to or associated with a main building, providing additional space or accommodations.
It may also refer to:
Places
* The Annex
The Annex is a neighbourhood in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Th ...
''(Annekssøen)''
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Centrum Lake Centrum Lake ( da, Centrumsø, also known as ''Centrum Sø''), is a lake in King Frederick VIII Land, near Greenland's northeastern coast. The lake and its surroundings are part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.
The Danish military b ...
Seal Lake
Seal Lake ( da, Sælsøen), also known as Sael Lake, Saelso, Saelsöen and Sælsø, is a land-locked freshwater fjord in southern King Frederick VIII Land, in Greenland's northeastern coast. The Danish weather station Danmarkshavn —the only i ...
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Ammassalik wooden maps
Ammassalik wooden maps are carved, tactile maps of the Greenlandic coastlines. In the 1880s, Gustav Holm led an expedition to the Ammassalik coast of eastern Greenland, where he met several Tunumiit, or Eastern Greenland Inuit communities, who ha ...
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List of glaciers in Greenland
This is a list of glaciers in Greenland. Details on the size and flow of some of the major Greenlandic glaciers are listed by Eric Rignot and Pannir Kanagaratnam (2006)
Ice sheets and caps
*Greenland Ice Sheet
* Christian Erichsen Ice Cap
*Flad ...
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 ...