Foster Bay

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Foster Bay
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Foster Bay
Location in Greenland
Location Arctic
Coordinates 73°15′N21°30′W / 73.250°N 21.500°W / 73.250; -21.500 Coordinates: 73°15′N21°30′W / 73.250°N 21.500°W / 73.250; -21.500
Ocean/sea sources Greenland Sea
Basin  countries Greenland

Foster Bay is a large bay of the Greenland Sea in King Christian X Land, Eastern Greenland.

Greenland Sea A body of water that borders Greenland to the west, the Svalbard archipelago to the east, south of the Fram Strait

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Geography

The bay lies north-east of Geographical Society Island. The Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord has its mouth in the bay, between Cape Mackenzie at the eastern end of Geographical Society Island and Cape Franklin, the southern end of the mainland's Gauss Peninsula; Bantekoe Island lies in the bay off the mouth of the fjord. [1]

Geographical Society Island island

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The eastern end of the Gauss Peninsula and the southern shore of Hold with Hope form the northern limit of the bay. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 120
  2. ↑ "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 18 June 2016.[ permanent dead link ]


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