Olrik Fjord

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Olrik Fjord
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Olrik Fjord
Location in Greenland
Location Arctic
Coordinates 77°12′N67°34′W / 77.200°N 67.567°W / 77.200; -67.567 Coordinates: 77°12′N67°34′W / 77.200°N 67.567°W / 77.200; -67.567
Native nameKangerluarsussuaq  (Greenlandic)
Ocean/sea sources Hvalsund
Baffin Bay
Basin  countries Greenland
Max. length80 km (50 mi)
Max. width5 km (3.1 mi)
SettlementsNaajat

Olrik Fjord (Danish : Olriks Fjord; Greenlandic : Kangerluarsussuaq) is a fjord in the Avannaata municipality, Northwestern Greenland. To the east the fjord opens into the Hvalsund, at the end of the Inglefield Gulf of the Baffin Bay. [1]

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This fjord was named by Robert Peary after Christian Søren Marcus Olrik, Royal Inspector of North Greenland. [2]

Geography

Olrik Fjord runs in a roughly east–west direction with its mouth west of Kangeq, in the southern shore of the mouth of the Inglefield Gulf, where the latter becomes the Hvalsund. [3] It is a long and narrow fjord, having a shape uncommon in NW Greenland. In the area near its mouth the fjord's southern shore is fringed by up to 680 m (2,230 ft) high cliffs displaying multicolored strata. [4]

The Marie Glacier, an offshoot of the Leidy Glacier, discharges at the head of the Olrik Fjord, not far from the head of the Academy Fjord. [5] [6]

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Map of Northwestern Greenland
19th century map of the Inglefield Gulf. Northward over the great ice - a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a description of the little tribe (14779963574).jpg
19th century map of the Inglefield Gulf.

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References

  1. ↑ GoogleEarth
  2. ↑ Robert Neff Keely, Gwilym George Davis, In Arctic Seas: the Voyage of the Kite with the Peary Expedition, 2011 p. 373
  3. ↑ "Olrik Fjord". Mapcarta. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  4. ↑ Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 88
  5. ↑ Greenland’s Leidy Glacier; NASA Earth Observatory
  6. ↑ The recent regimen of the ice cap margin in North Greenland


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