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Jørgen Brønlund Fjord or Brønlund Fjord is a fjord in southern
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 ...
, northern
Greenland Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. It is by far the largest geographically of three constituent parts of the kingdom; the other two are metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenlan ...
. It was named after polar explorer
Jørgen Brønlund Jørgen Brønlund (14 December 1877 – November 1907) was a Kalaallit, Greenlandic List of polar explorers, polar explorer, educator, and Catechism, catechist. He participated in two Danish expeditions to Greenland in the early 20th century. ...
by the
Danmark expedition The Denmark expedition (), also known as the Denmark Expedition to Greenland's Northeast Coast and the Danmark Expedition after the ship's name, was an expedition to northeastern Greenland in 1906–1908. Despite being overshadowed by the dea ...
.


Geography

It runs roughly from NW to SE with its mouth located at the western end 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 ...
, between Cape Harald Moltke to the east and Cape Knud Rasmussen to the west. It is about long and to wide, and opens out to
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 ...
in the south. The Børglum River has its mouth on the left side of the fjord.Nunat Aqqi; Stednavne
/ref> Brønlundhus, a former research station, is located on the west side close to the mouth of the fjord, and Kap Harald Moltke, another similar facility, on the east side. Brønlundhus was, until 1950, the northernmost radio outpost in the world. The northern shore is the type locality of the
Buen Formation The Buen Formation is a Formation (geology), geologic formation and Lagerstätte in Peary Land, North Greenland. The shale preserves fossils dating back to the Early Cambrian Period (geology), period (Atdabanian in the local timescale, about 520 ...
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See also

* Brønlund Fjord Group * Deltaterrasserne *
List of fjords of Greenland This is a list of the most important fjords of Greenland:In Greenland, Northern Greenland, a large area made up entirely of fjords; therefore Peary Land above not a fjord but a fjord area.In Greenland, Northeastern Greenland, a large area made ...
* List of features in Greenland named after Greenlandic Inuit


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Helicopters are down away from Jorgen Bronlund Fjord, military crews are reunited and charts are reviewed, in the snow and ice of Greenland, in 1960.
Brondlund Fjord Peary Land {{Greenland-fjord-stub