Ofjord ( kl, Ikaasakajik; da, Øfjord, meaning 'Island Fjord') 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 ...

King Christian X Land King Christian X Land ( da, Kong Christian X Land) is an area of northeastern Greenland. History This area was named after King Christian X of Denmark and Iceland (1870 – 1947), who rose to the throne in 1912. At the time of the Three-year E ...

, eastern

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. This fjord is part of the

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 Sermersooq Sermersooq (, da, sted med meget is, lit=place of much ice) is a municipality in Greenland, formed on 1 January 2009 from five earlier, smaller municipalities. Its administrative seat is the city of Nuuk (formerly called Godthåb), the capital ...

municipality.

History

The Øfjord was named in 1891 by

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during his 1891–92 East Greenland Expedition owing to the islands on the southern side of its mouth. The Greenlandic name ''Ikaasakajik'' ("the bad sound") originated in a 1955 name registration by the Geodetical Institute of Denmark ''(Geodætisk Institut)''. The name makes reference to the persistent

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s blowing along the fjord.Place names, NE Greenland
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Geography

The to wide Ofjord is a

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with a fjord structure located in the northern Hall Gulf ''(Hall Bredning)'', part of the inner Scoresby Sound. From its mouth near the

Bjorne Islands Bjorne Islands, da, Bjørne Øer; kl, Nannut Qeqertaat) meaning 'Bear Islands', is an island group in the Scoresby Sound, NE Greenland. The islands are uninhabited. Administratively they belong to the Sermersooq municipality. History This isla ...

this fjord runs in a roughly NE/SW direction for about until it bends and runs in a slightly more east–west direction for a further . About before the confluence there is a sound branching on its southern shore towards the southwest, the Snesund. Further west the

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 ...

branches to the northwest, the

Hare Fjord Hares and jackrabbits are mammals belonging to the genus ''Lepus''. They are herbivores, and live solitarily or in pairs. They nest in slight depressions called forms, and their young are able to fend for themselves shortly after birth. The g ...

continues in a westerly direction and the

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 ...

''(Røde Fjord)'' branches towards the south. To the northeast the fjord is bound by

Renland Renland is a peninsula in eastern Greenland. It is a part of the Sermersooq municipality. Despite its proximity to the coast Renland has an ice cap climate with bitterly cold winters and very low maximum temperatures in the summer. Renland was na ...

, a peninsula attached to the mainland, and to the south by the island of

Milne Land Milne Land or Milneland is a large island in eastern Greenland. It is the third largest island of Greenland, after the main island of Greenland and Disko Island. It is named after British admiral David Milne. This island is popular among climber ...

. The island of

Storo Storo (''Stòr'' in local dialect) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in Trentino in the northern Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about southwest of Trento. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 4,554 and an area of .Al ...

lies on the NW side of the Snesund.

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Holocene glacimarine sedimentation, inner Scoresby SundØfjord and Bjørneøer islands
Fjords of Greenland Scoresby Sound {{Greenland-geo-stub

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