The Børglum River () is a river in

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 nor ...

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. It is the largest river in Greenland.Nunat Aqqi; Stednavne
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Northeast Greenland National Park Northeast Greenland National Park (, ) is the world's largest national park and the 10th largest protected area (the only larger protected areas consist mostly of sea). Established in 1974, the Northeast Greenland national park expanded to its p ...

. The Børglum River Formation is named after the river. Fossils dating back to the

Ordovician The Ordovician ( ) is a geologic period and System (geology), system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era (geology), Era, and the second of twelve periods of the Phanerozoic Eon (geology), Eon. The Ordovician spans 41.6 million years f ...

have been found in it. The Børglum River Formation was deposited in the paleoequatorial marginal seas of

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during the

Katian The Katian is the second stage of the Upper Ordovician. It is preceded by the Sandbian and succeeded by the Hirnantian Stage. The Katian began million years ago and lasted for about 7.6 million years until the beginning of the Hirnantian mill ...

.Transgressive-regressive events and facies through the Upper Ordovician - Lower Silurian of Peary Land, North Greenland
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The Børglum River is formed on the southern slopes of the Nordkrone. After leaving the mountains it heads roughly southwards across the desolate territories of the western limit of

Melville Land Melville Land is an area in Peary Land, North Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.Google Maps History Robert Peary named the territory, together with Heilprin Land, in 1892 during his North Greenland Exp ...

, an

unglaciated A glacier (; or ) is a persistent body of dense ice, a form of rock, that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its Ablation#Glaciology, ablation over many years, often cen ...

area. Finally it bends southwestwards and joins the left side of the Brønlund Fjord from its mouth in the

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 Indepen ...

. The river receives many tributaries along its course. The river was first mapped by Danish

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during his Cartographic Air Expedition of 1938. He named it after the medieval

Børglum Abbey Børglum Abbey was an important Premonstratensian abbey of medieval Denmark, located in Børglum parish, in the commune of Hjørring, approximately five kilometers east of Løkken in north central Jutland (Region Nordjylland) from the 12th cent ...

in Denmark.

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Cephalopod assemblages from the Upper Ordovician Børglum River Formation, Peary Land, North Greenland.Cambrian–Silurian stratigraphy of Børglum Elv, Peary Land, eastern North Greenland
Rivers of Greenland Peary Land

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