Antarctic Sound, Greenland

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Antarctic Sound
Antarctic Sund
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Antarctic Sound
LocationNE Greenland
Coordinates 73°6′N25°24′W / 73.100°N 25.400°W / 73.100; -25.400 Coordinates: 73°6′N25°24′W / 73.100°N 25.400°W / 73.100; -25.400
Part of Arctic Ocean
Ocean/sea sources Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord
King Oscar Fjord
Greenland Sea
Basin  countries Greenland
Max. length30 km (19 mi)
Max. width3 km (1.9 mi)
FrozenMost of the year

The Antarctic Sound (Danish : Antarctic Sund) is a sound in King Christian X Land, Northeast Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. [1]

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History

The sound was named by Alfred Gabriel Nathorst after his ship Antarctic , [2] on which he found and first mapped this fjord branch in 1899 during the Swedish Greenland Expedition in search of survivors of S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897. [3]

SS Antarctic, the ship after which the fjord was named. SS Antarctic in Eastern Greenland.jpg
SS Antarctic, the ship after which the fjord was named.

Geography

It is a fjord forming a channel that runs roughly from northwest to southeast between the southern shore of mid Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord to the north and the head of King Oscar Fjord to the south. Its minimum width is 3 km. [4]

The Antarctic Sound separates the northeastern shore of Suess Land —part of the Greenland mainland— from the southwestern shore of Ymer Island. Ruth Island lies off the southeastern mouth of the sound. [5]

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Map of Northeastern Greenland
Landsat satellite image of Ymer Island with the Antarctic Sound in the bottom left corner. Ymer Island - Landsat TM 230.jpg
Landsat satellite image of Ymer Island with the Antarctic Sound in the bottom left corner.

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References

  1. ↑ GoogleEarth
  2. ↑ Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
  3. ↑ Spencer Apollonio, Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland, 2008, p. 81
  4. ↑ "Antarctic Sund". Mapcarta. Retrieved 25 May 2019.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  5. ↑ Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 119
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