Olrik Fjord

Olrik Fjord
Kangerluarsussuaq (Greenlandic)
Map of Northwestern Greenland
Olrik Fjord Location in Greenland
Location	Arctic
Coordinates	77°12′N67°34′W / 77.200°N 67.567°W / 77.200; -67.567
Ocean/sea sources	Hvalsund Baffin Bay
Basin  countries	Greenland
Max. length	80 km (50 mi)
Max. width	5 km (3.1 mi)
Settlements	Naajat

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]

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]}

19th century map of the Inglefield Gulf.

Bibliography

• Daniel D. Roby, Henning Thing and Karen L. Brink, History, Status, and Taxonomic Identity of Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in Northwest Greenland. Arctic Vol. 37, No. 1 (Mar., 1984), pp. 23-30
• Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin 174, 1997, p. 120 - GEUS Archived 2020-07-13 at the Wayback Machine

See also

• List of fjords of Greenland
• Arctic desert

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" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-06-25. Retrieved 2019-04-24.

External links

• Arctic desert, Olrik Fjord, Northern Greenland
• Some examples of dated musk-ox Ovibos moschatus finds from the Olrik Fjord area in the Thule region