Muskox Fjord ( da, Moskusoksefjord) 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 ...

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, East

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. Administratively it lies in 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 ...

area. This fjord is part of 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 ...

system.

History

Muskox Fjord was mapped in 1899 during the Swedish Greenland Expedition in search of survivors of

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led by Swedish Arctic explorer

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(1850–1921). It was named ''Moskusoksefjorden'' after the

muskox The muskox (''Ovibos moschatus'', in Latin "musky sheep-ox"), also spelled musk ox and musk-ox, plural muskoxen or musk oxen (in iu, ᐅᒥᖕᒪᒃ, umingmak; in Woods Cree: ), is a hoofed mammal of the family Bovidae. Native to the Arctic, i ...

of which Nathorst saw a quite large herd near the shores of the fjord, one of the areas in East Greenland providing a habitat for this resilient Arctic mammal. There are Norwegian hunting huts by the shores of the fjord.

Geography

Muskox Fjord is a branch of the

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 ...

, a tributary of

. Its entrance is located in the eastern shore of the head of Nordfjord, southeast of the terminus of the

Waltershausen Glacier Waltershausen Glacier ( da, Waltershausen Gletscher) is one of the major glaciers in Greenland. It has its terminus on the east coast of the Greenland ice sheet. History This glacier was named after German geologist Wolfgang Sartorius von Walters ...

, between Cape Kolthoff in the south and Cape Bull in the north. The fjord is about wide near the mouth, narrowing to an average of less than in most of the length of its inner part. It stretches roughly towards the southeast for almost , curving northeastwards for the last until the head. Muskox Fjord separates

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in the north from the Gauss Peninsula in the south. There are up to high mountains on both sides of the mouth area of the fjord, where there are some places with good anchorages.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 120 There is no glacier flowing into the head, which is located in the isthmus area of

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, only west of the head of

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.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 122

Bibliography

*A. K. Higgins, Jane A. Gilotti, M. Paul Smith (eds.), ''The Greenland Caledonides: Evolution of the Northeast Margin of Laurentia''.

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Sedimentary processes and paleoenvironments in Moskusoksefjord

Geology of North-East Greenland
Fjords of Greenland {{Greenland-geo-stub

History

Geography

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