Dusen Fjord

Dusen Fjord or Dusén Fjord is a fjord in the NE Greenland National Park area, East Greenland.

Dusen Fjord
Dusén Fjord
View of the confluence of Dusen Fjord (bottom) with the Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord (top).
Dusen Fjord
Location within Greenland
LocationNE Greenland
Coordinates73°14′N 24°0′W
Ocean/sea sourcesKaiser Franz Joseph Fjord
Greenland Sea
Basin countriesGreenland
Max. length60 kilometres (37 mi)
Max. width4 kilometres (2.5 mi)

History

The fjord was named in 1899 by Swedish Arctic explorer A.G. Nathorst during the expedition he led to Greenland. It was named after Per Dusén, who surveyed the mouth of the fjord. The exploration, however, was incomplete and the fjord would only be thoroughly surveyed years later by Lauge Koch and by the NSIU (Norges Svalbard og Ishavsundersøkelser).[1]

Promoted by the Arctic Trading Co., towards 1928 a number of cabins were built by the shores of this fjord, where the Norwegians had their hunting areas and fishing grounds.[1]

Geography

The Dusen Fjord is part of the Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord system. It cuts deep into Ymer Island, almost dividing it in two, separating Gunnar Anderson Land in the north, from the southern part of the island. The fjord runs roughly from west to east for about 60 kilometres (37 mi). Its mouth opens to the east just south of the entrance of Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord, near Foster Bay.[2] Noa Lake is a small lake at the head of the fjord in the isthmus area.[3]

The Vinter Islands lie east of Cape Graah, on the northern side of the fjord's mouth. Cape Wijkander is the headland on the southern side of the mouth.[3]

Map of Northeastern Greenland
Ymer Island Landsat satellite image
gollark: `in the future i might get a cheap computer just too recieve internet,` - what? why?
gollark: Then buy an external hard disk and download the internet to it.
gollark: Simply download the internet to your laptop; done.
gollark: Windows is stupid?
gollark: Ontoflubulated Internet Terminal.

See also

References
  1. "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
  2. "Dusén Fjord". Mapcarta. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  3. Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 120
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.