Bessel Fjord, NW Greenland

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Bessel Fjord
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Bessel Fjord
Location
Location Arctic
Coordinates 80°55′N63°5′W / 80.917°N 63.083°W / 80.917; -63.083 Coordinates: 80°55′N63°5′W / 80.917°N 63.083°W / 80.917; -63.083
Ocean/sea sources Kennedy Channel
Nares Strait
Basin  countries Greenland
Max. length60 km (37 mi)
Max. width3.5 km (2.2 mi)
FrozenMost of the year
SettlementsUninhabited

Bessel Fjord, also known as Bessels Bay, is a fjord in northwestern Greenland. [1] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.

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Knud Rasmussen described the fjord entrance in the following terms:

We passed Bessel Fjord in a fresh breeze, and the peculiar indentation, surrounded on all sides by steep mountains intersected by hanging tongues of ice, looked eerie and desolate. [2]

Geography

Bessel Fjord stretches roughly from north to south for about 60 km. It is a long and narrow fjord lined with high mountains rising steeply from the shore. Hannah Island, a small island, lies in the area of its mouth by the Kennedy Channel, Cape Bryan is on the western side of the mouth and Cape Maynard on the northeastern. [3]

This fjord is located northeast of Washington Land, at the northern end of Daugaard-Jensen Land. The Petermann Peninsula forms its eastern shore. There are large ice caps on both landmasses flanking the fjord. [1]

Map of part of Ellesmere Island and far Northern Greenland. Operational Navigation Chart A-5, 3rd edition.jpg
Map of part of Ellesmere Island and far Northern Greenland.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Bessel Fjord". Mapcarta. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
  2. ↑ Rasmussen, Knud, Greenland by the Polar Sea; the story of the Thule expedition from Melville bay to Cape Morris Jesup.
  3. ↑ Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 93


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