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Bessel Fjord, NW Greenland

Coordinates: 80°55′N 63°5′W / 80.917°N 63.083°W / 80.917; -63.083
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Bessel Fjord
Bessels Fjord
Bessel Fjord is located in Greenland
Bessel Fjord
Bessel Fjord
Location
LocationArctic
Coordinates80°55′N 63°5′W / 80.917°N 63.083°W / 80.917; -63.083
Ocean/sea sourcesKennedy Channel
Nares Strait
Basin countriesGreenland
Max. length60 km (37 mi)
Max. width3.5 km (2.2 mi)
FrozenMost of the year
SettlementsUninhabited

Bessel Fjord (Danish: Bessels Fjord) is a fjord in northwestern Greenland.[1] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.

Knud Rasmussen described the fjord entrance in the following terms:

We passed Bessel Fjord in a fresh breeze, and the peculiar indentation, surrounded on all sides by steep mountains intersected by hanging tongues of ice, looked eerie and desolate.[2]

Geography

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Bessel Fjord stretches roughly from north to south for about 60 km. It is a long and narrow fjord lined with high mountains rising steeply from the shore. Hannah Island, a small island, lies in the area of its mouth by the Kennedy Channel, Cape Bryan is on the western side of the mouth and Cape Maynard on the northeastern.[3]

This fjord is located northeast of Washington Land, at the northern end of Daugaard-Jensen Land. The Petermann Peninsula forms its eastern shore. There are large ice caps on both landmasses flanking the fjord.[1]

Map of part of Ellesmere Island and far Northern Greenland.

Bibliography

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  • H.P. Trettin (ed.), Geology of the Innuitian Orogen and Arctic Platform of Canada and Greenland. Geological Survey of Canada (1991) ISBN 978-0660131313

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Bessel Fjord". Mapcarta. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
  2. ^ Rasmussen, Knud, Greenland by the Polar Sea; the story of the Thule expedition from Melville bay to Cape Morris Jesup.
  3. ^ Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 93
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