| Fleming Fjord | |
|---|---|
| "Fleming Inlet" | |
  Fleming Fjord Location in Greenland | |
| Location | Arctic |
| Coordinates | 71°45′N22°49′W / 71.750°N 22.817°W Coordinates: 71°45′N22°49′W / 71.750°N 22.817°W |
| Ocean/sea sources | Greenland Sea |
| Basin countries | Greenland |
| Max. length | 27 km (17 mi) |
| Max. width | 9 km (5.6 mi) |
| Settlements | 0 |
Fleming Fjord is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland. [1]
Geologically, a fjord or fiord is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier. There are many fjords on the coasts of Alaska, Antarctica, British Columbia, Chile, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Kamchatka, the Kerguelen Islands, New Zealand, Norway, Novaya Zemlya, Labrador, Nunavut, Newfoundland, Quebec, Scotland, South Georgia Island, and Washington state. Norway's coastline is estimated at 29,000 kilometres (18,000 mi) with nearly 1,200 fjords, but only 2,500 kilometres (1,600 mi) when fjords are excluded.
King Christian X Land is an area of northeastern Greenland.
Greenland is an autonomous country of the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe for more than a millennium. The majority of its residents are Inuit, whose ancestors began migrating from the Canadian mainland in the 13th century, gradually settling across the island.
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Administratively it lies in the Sermersooq Municipality.
Sermersooq is a municipality in Greenland, formed on 1 January 2009 from five earlier, smaller municipalities. Its administrative seat is the city of Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, and it is the most populous municipality in the country, with 21,868 inhabitants as of January 2013. The municipality consists of former municipalities of eastern and southwestern Greenland, each named after the largest settlement at the time of formation:
