Olrik Fjord
Kangerluarsussuaq (Greenlandic)
Map of Northwestern Greenland
Olrik Fjord is located in Greenland
Olrik Fjord
Olrik Fjord
Location in Greenland
LocationArctic
Coordinates77°12′N 67°34′W / 77.200°N 67.567°W / 77.200; -67.567
Ocean/sea sourcesHvalsund
Baffin Bay
Basin countriesGreenland
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]

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.

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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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