Academy Fjord

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Academy Fjord
Academy Bay / Academy Bugt
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Academy Fjord
Location in Greenland
Location Arctic
Coordinates 77°18′N66°30′W / 77.300°N 66.500°W / 77.300; -66.500 Coordinates: 77°18′N66°30′W / 77.300°N 66.500°W / 77.300; -66.500
Ocean/sea sources Inglefield Gulf
Baffin Bay
Basin  countries Greenland
Max. length25 km (16 mi)
Max. width3.5 km (2.2 mi)

Academy Fjord or Academy Bay (Danish : Academy Bugt) is a fjord in northern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.

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The fjord was named by Robert Peary after the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.

Geography

The Academy Fjord opens to the northwest into the inner end of the Inglefield Gulf, close to its head and south of the Harvard Islands. [1] The fjord is bordered on both sides by unglaciated plateaux reaching approximately 1,000 m (3,300 ft). The northeastern one, Nunatarsuaq, is a nunatak dotted with lakes. The southwestern side of the fjord is fringed by a continuous wall of almost vertical cliffs extending from a promontory at the mouth of the fjord beyond the head into the glacier area. The northeastern side of the fjord is also flanked by cliffs, but near the mouth it is cut by a few deep valleys through which the inner Nunatarsuaq plateau is accessible. [2]

The head of the fjord is close to the head of Olrik Fjord, where the Leidy Glacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet through the Academy Glacier into both fjords. [3]

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Map of Northwestern Greenland
19th century map of the Inglefield Gulf. Northward over the great ice - a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a description of the little tribe (14779963574).jpg
19th century map of the Inglefield Gulf.

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References

  1. ↑ "Academy Bugt". Mapcarta. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  2. ↑ Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 90
  3. ↑ Greenland’s Leidy Glacier; NASA Earth Observatory


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