Antarctic Bay | |
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Antarctic Bugt | |
Location in Greenland | |
Location | Peary Land, Arctic |
Coordinates | 81°3′N14°20′W / 81.050°N 14.333°W |
Ocean/sea sources | Greenland Sea |
Basin countries | Greenland |
Max. length | 14 km (8.7 mi) |
Max. width | 17 km (11 mi) |
Frozen | All year round |
Settlements | 0 |
Antarctic Bay (Danish : Antarctic Bugt) is a bay in the Greenland Sea coast of the Crown Prince Christian Land peninsula, King Frederick VIII Land, Northeastern Greenland. [1] Administratively the bay and its surroundings belong to the Northeast Greenland National Park.
The area of the bay is uninhabited.
The bay was named by the 1906-1908 Denmark expedition after Alfred Gabriel Nathorst's ship Antarctic . [2]
Antarctic Bay opens to the Fram Strait of the Greenland Sea. It lies between Amdrup Land to the west and the Flade Isblink ice cap to the north. It is a fairly wide bay, with the Nordostrundingen about 50 km (31 mi) to the northeast of its unnamed northeastern point. Sophus Müller Naes is the southwestern point of the bay. [3] Kilen lies just a few km north of the ice-covered head and northeastern shore of the bay. [4] The waters of bay are clogged by fast ice the year round.
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