Young Sound ( da, Young Sund) is a marine channel with 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 ...

structure in

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, East

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. Administratively it is part of 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 ...

zone.

History

The fjord was given the name "Young’s Bay" by

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in 1822. He named it in honour of British scientist Thomas Young (1773– 1829), secretary of the

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. During the 1869–70 Second

German North Polar Expedition The German North Polar Expeditions were a short series of mid-19th century German expeditions to the Arctic. The aim was to explore the North Pole region and to brand the newly united, Prussian-led German Empire as a great power. In 1866, German ge ...

this body of water was surveyed by

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, who used the name "Tyrolerfjord" for the whole water body. Later, during the 1929–1930 Expedition to East Greenland,

Lauge Koch Lauge Koch (5 July 1892 – 5 June 1964) was a Danish geologist and Arctic explorer. Biography Lauge Koch was born in 1892 to Karl and Elisabeth Koch. His development as a scientist was greatly influenced by his father's second cousin Johan Pet ...

reinstated the name "Young Sund" for the outer section of the water body. Just north of Daneborg there was a Danish hunting station named Sandodden which is now abandoned.

Geography

Young Sound opens in the northern side of the mouth area of

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, north of

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. It extends north and northeast of

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and southwest of

Wollaston Foreland Wollaston Foreland ( da, Wollaston Forland) is a peninsula in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the NE Greenland National Park area. History This peninsula was named by William Scoresby in 1822 as a testimony ...

; to the north lies A. P. Olsen Land. It is about wide at the entrance and stretches to the west for about , curving inward in a roughly northwestern direction for , bending again roughly westwards for a further until the mouth of the

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 was ...

, that branches northwards and forms the inner section of the water body.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 122

Zackenberg Station Zackenberg (or ZERO - Zackenberg Ecological Research Operations), or Zackenberg Research Station, is an ecosystem research station and monitoring facility situated in the Northeast Greenland National Park in northeastern Greenland. The station i ...

and

Daneborg Station Daneborg (or Daneborg Station) is a station on the south coast of Wollaston Foreland peninsula of northeast Greenland, at the mouth of Young Sund emptying into Greenland Sea. Daneborg serves as the headquarters for the SIRIUS Patrol, the dog sle ...

are located on the Wollaston Foreland shore of the sound, the latter close to its mouth.

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, also known as "Klippe", is a small island in the middle of Young Sound, about NW of its entrance.''Sandøen'', a small sandy islet with a

walrus The walrus (''Odobenus rosmarus'') is a large pinniped, flippered marine mammal with a discontinuous distribution about the North Pole in the Arctic Ocean and subarctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere. The walrus is the only living species in ...

colony, is located in the mouth area.

References

External links

Young Sund Campaign 2016 - Isaaffik

Wehrmacht occupations in the new world: Archaeological and historical investigations in Northeast Greenland
Fjords of Greenland {{Greenland-geo-stub

History

Geography

See also

References

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