Navarana Fjord

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Navarana Fjord
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Navarana Fjord
Location in Greenland
Location Arctic
Coordinates 82°35′N42°0′W / 82.583°N 42.000°W / 82.583; -42.000
Ocean/sea sources J.P. Koch Fjord
Lincoln Sea
Basin  countries Greenland
Max. length40 km (25 mi)
Max. width3 km (1.9 mi)
Settlements0

Navarana Fjord is a fjord in Peary Land, far northern Greenland. [1] It is named after an Inuit woman.

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In 1984 important zinc and barium deposits were discovered in the Navarana Fjord. [2] Australian Ironbark Zinc corporation was granted an exploration licence in 2007. [3] [4]

History

This fjord was mapped by Danish Arctic explorer Eigil Knuth during the Danish Peary Land Expedition of 1947–1950. [5] It was named after Navarana Mequpaluk (died 1921), the wife of Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen (1886–1957). [6] Navarana had died at Upernavik in 1921 just before joining the Fifth Thule Expedition with her husband. Her death came at the time of the influenza epidemic that ravaged indigenous populations in Greenland in the early 1920s. [7] [8]

Geography

Navarana Fjord is located in the northeastern part of Freuchen Land, western Peary Land. It is the only significant branch of J.P. Koch Fjord, with the junction about 45 km (28 mi) east of the mouth in the southern shore. The fjord runs roughly southwards in the middle fjord zone, deeply dividing the Freuchen Land Peninsula. It is about 40 km (25 mi) in length and high mountains rise on both sides of the shore, with impressive up to 1,300 m (4,300 ft) high cliffs in some places. [2]

There is a fairly large glacier, the Navarana Fjord Glacier, at the head of the fjord discharging from the southeast. [9]

Geology

Geologically this fjord is located in the Paleozoic Franklinian Basin. [3] Navarana Fjord is part of an escarpment at the northern edge of a Silurian limestone shelf with a fault running for 500 km (310 mi) reaching Nyeboe Land. [2] [10]

Sisamatispongia is a genus of fossil sponges whose spicules are only recorded from Navarana Fjord. [11]

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  2. 1 2 3 Lars Lund Sørensen, Per Kalvig, Kristine Thrane and Diogo Rosa (27 February 2018). "Geology and Ore – The zinc potential in Greenland – Assessment of undiscovered sediment-hosted zinc deposits" (PDF). GEUS. Ministry of Mineral Resources (MMR), Government of Greenland and Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS). ISSN   2246-3372 . Retrieved 5 October 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. 1 2 Anna Varga-Vass (23 February 2018). "Zinc potential at Navarana Fjord" (PDF). Ministry of Mineral Resources (MMR), Government of Greenland – Project Opportunity Greenland. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  4. ↑ "Zinc mineralization at Navarana Fjord, central North Greenland" (pdf). researchgate.net. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  5. ↑ Nunat Aqqi; Stednavne
  6. ↑ Sam Alley. "Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen". Minnesota State University. Archived from the original on 12 October 2010. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
  7. ↑ Janice Cavell & Jeff Noakes, Acts of Occupation: Canada and Arctic Sovereignty, 1918–25; p. 140
  8. ↑ "5th Thule Expedition Atlas - The Expedition Team". thuleatlas.org. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  9. ↑ "J. P. Koch Fjord". Mapcarta. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  10. ↑ "Petroleumstilsynet : Buried western extension of the Navarana Fjord escarpment in central and western North Greenland [Rapport]". petroleumstilsynet.mikromarc.no. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  11. ↑ Peel, John S (17 July 2018). "Sponge spicules from the Holm Dal Formation (Cambrian Series 3, Guzhangian) of North Greenland (Laurentia)" (PDF). GFF. Taylor & Francis. 140 (4): 306–317. doi: 10.1080/11035897.2018.1479444 . Retrieved 5 October 2019.
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