Odin Fjord

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Odin Fjord
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Odin Fjord
Location in Greenland
Location Arctic
Coordinates 82°53′N35°36′W / 82.883°N 35.600°W / 82.883; -35.600 Coordinates: 82°53′N35°36′W / 82.883°N 35.600°W / 82.883; -35.600
River sources Ymer Glacier
Ocean/sea sources Frederick E. Hyde Fjord
Wandel Sea
Basin  countries Greenland
Max. length20 km (12 mi)
Max. width2.5 km (1.6 mi)
FrozenAll year round

Odin Fjord is a fjord in Peary Land, far northern Greenland. [1]

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Robert Peary did not explore the Frederick E. Hyde Fjord owing to thick fog at its mouth. The inner fjord branches were mapped and named by Lauge Koch in the course of aerial surveys from the 1920s onwards. [2]

Geography

Odin Fjord is an offshoot on the southern shore of Frederick E. Hyde Fjord, located close to its head, 121 km (75 mi) west of Cape John Flagler at the fjord entrance. Thor Fjord has its mouth to the east on the same side. The fjord is roughly oriented in a north–south direction and is nearly 20 km (12 mi) in length. [3]

Flowing northwards to the east of the Hans Tausen Ice Cap, the Ymer Glacier discharges at the head of the fjord. [1] [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 Google Maps
  2. ↑ Spencer Apollonio, Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland, 2008 p. 101
  3. ↑ Sailing Directions for East Greenland and Iceland, p. 182
  4. ↑ J. C. Escher & Poul-Henrik Larsen, The buried western extension of the Navarana Fjord escarpment in central and western North Greenland; p. 84
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