Carlsberg Fjord ( kl, Kangerterajitta Itterterilaq) 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, ...
in
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 ...
, eastern
Greenland
Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland is t ...
.
Administratively it lies in the
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
This fjord was first noted by British
explorer
Exploration refers to the historical practice of discovering remote lands. It is studied by geographers and historians.
Two major eras of exploration occurred in human history: one of convergence, and one of divergence. The first, covering most ...
William Scoresby
William Scoresby (5 October 178921 March 1857) was an English whaler, Arctic explorer, scientist and clergyman.
Early years
Scoresby was born in the village of Cropton near Pickering south-west of Whitby in Yorkshire. His father, William ...
(1789 – 1857), who assumed that it connected with
Hurry Inlet
Hurry Inlet ( da, Hurry Fjord; kl, Kangerterajiva, meaning 'The Little Fjord') is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland.
This fjord is part of the Scoresby Sound system. Administratively it lies in the area of Sermersooq municipality ...
to the south. It was first properly surveyed and mapped by Danish
Arctic explorer Georg Carl Amdrup during the
Carlsberg Foundation Expedition to East Greenland ''(Carlsbergfondet Expedition til Ost-Gronland)'' in 1898–1900. Amdrup named the fjord after the
Carlsberg Foundation
Carlsberg Foundation ( da, Carlsbergfondet) was founded by J. C. Jacobsen in 1876, by allocating some of his shares in the Carlsberg Brewery to fund and operate the Carlsberg Laboratory and the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Palac ...
.
Carlsberg Fjord marked the southern border of
Erik the Red's Land
Erik the Red's Land ( no, Eirik Raudes Land) was the name given by Norwegians to an area on the coast of eastern Greenland occupied by Norway in the early 1930s. It was named after Erik the Red, the founder of the first Norse or Viking settlement ...
in 1932–1933.
[Spencer Apollonio, ''Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland,'' 2008]
The
Greenlandic name ''Kangerterajitta Itterterilaq'' was recorded in 1955 by the
Geodætisk Institut, referring to the relative positions of the fjord and Hurry Inlet to the south.
Geography
Carlsberg Fjord is located SE of the mouth of
Davy Sound
The Davy Sound ( da, Davy Sund) is a sound in King Christian X Land, Northeast Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. History
The sound was named and put on the map by William Scoresby (1789 – 1857 ...
, separating
Jameson Land
Jameson Land is a peninsula in eastern Greenland.
Geography
Jameson Land is bounded to the southwest by Scoresby Sound (the world's largest fjord), to the northwest by the Stauning Alps, to the north by Scoresby Land, to the northeast by the Fle ...
to the west from
Liverpool Land
Liverpool Land is a peninsula in eastern Greenland.
Geography
The peninsula is bounded by Scoresby Sund in the south, Carlsberg Fjord in the northwest, '' Kangerterajiva'' (Hurry Inlet) in the southwest, the Greenland Sea in the east, and Jame ...
to the east. Its mouth opens to the northeast, between
Cape Fletcher in the
Canning Land Peninsula to the north and
Cape Greville on the northeastern side, west of
Reynolds Island.
Nathorst Fjord
Alfred Gabriel Nathorst (7 November 1850 – 20 January 1921) was a Swedish Arctic explorer, geologist, and palaeobotanist.
Life
He was born in Väderbrunn in Sweden.
Nathorst's interest in geology was awoken by Charles Lyell’s ‘’P ...
lies beyond the Canning Land Peninsula. Both shores of the outer section of the fjord have deep indentations.
It extends roughly southwards for about and it is fairly broad and deep, narrowing close to its head.
[''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 117]
Instead of a glacier at the fjord's head there is the
Klitdal, a long valley continuing southwards.
See also
*
List of fjords of Greenland
This is a list of the most important fjords of Greenland:In Northern Greenland, a large area made up entirely of fjords; therefore Peary Land above not a fjord but a fjord area.In Northeastern Greenland, a large area made up entirely of fjo ...
Bibliography
*Callomon, J.H. 1970: ''Geological map of the Carlsberg Fjord – Fossil bjerget area.'' Meddelelser om Grønland 168(4), 10 pp.
References
External links
Simplified geologic map of Central Fjord region of East GreenlandTriassic freshwater ichnocoenoses from Carlsberg Fjord, East Greenland
Fjords of Greenland
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