Rype Fjord ( kl, Aqissip Kangertiva; da, Rypefjord, meaning '

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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, Förden and East Jutland Fjorde, Germany, ...

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, 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.

Geography

The to wide and roughly long Rype Fjord is located in the inner Scoresby Sound. This fjord is an offshoot of the

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 ...

''(Øfjord)''. At the confluence the Rype Fjord branches to the northwest off the northern shore of the Ofjord, while the

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runs 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 ...

branches towards the south. The

Eielson Glacier Eielson may refer to: *Carl Benjamin Eielson (1897-1929), American aviator *Jorge Eduardo Eielson (1924-2006), Peruvian poet *Various facilities named for Carl Benjamin Eielson: **Eielson Air Force Base, located near Fairbanks, Alaska **Ben Eielson ...

is at the fjord's head flowing from the west.Eielson Glacier
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tongue is about 25 kilometers NW of the mouth of the fjord. The fjord is only 2.9 km wide at the mouth, becoming broader towards the north until reaching a width of over 5 km. To the northeast the fjord is bound by

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and to the west by Grabenland where there is a summit reaching a height of above the glacier. Operational Navigation Chart C-1, 1st edition

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Rypefjord, Øfjord and Ittoqqortoormiit
* ttp://www.cpom.org/research/jad-mg.pdf Holocene glacimarine sedimentation, inner Scoresby Sund Fjords of Greenland Scoresby Sound {{Greenland-fjord-stub

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