Fleming Fjord

Fleming Fjord is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland.[1]

Fleming Fjord
"Fleming Inlet"
Fleming Fjord
Location in Greenland
LocationArctic
Coordinates71°45′N 22°49′W
Ocean/sea sourcesGreenland Sea
Basin countriesGreenland
Max. length27 km (17 mi)
Max. width9 km (5.6 mi)
Settlements0

Administratively it lies in the Sermersooq Municipality.

History

This fjord was named "Fleming Inlet" by British explorer William Scoresby (1789 – 1857) after Scottish scholar John Fleming (1785–1857). Scoresby assumed that this fjord connected with "Hall Inlet" (Hall Bredning) to the south.

After more than a century, this fjord was finally properly explored and mapped by Danish Arctic explorer Georg Carl Amdrup during the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland (Treårsekspeditionen) (1931–1934). Although Amdrup's survey proved that it was a fjord, the name "Fleming Inlet" continued to be used on maps for many years.[2]

A small wintering station was built in 1934 on the east side of Fleming Fjord near Cape Brown at the mouth of the Vimmelskaftet Valley during the time of the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland.[3]

A Norwegian hunting hut was built in 1954 on the north side of the fjord 10 km (6.2 mi) SW of Kap Biot, at the time of Hermann Andresen’s expedition. Another one was built nearby in 1955 by Otto Lapstun, who had moved it from nearby Nathorst Fjord.[2]

Geography

Fleming Fjord is located SE of the mouth of Davy Sound, cutting into Jameson Land, extending roughly southwestwards for about 27 km (17 mi). The NW side of its mouth lies at the limit of Sermersooq Municipality, the Northeast Greenland National Park lying beyond Cape Biot. To the east lies the Wegener Peninsula and Cape Brown, beyond which lies Nathorst Fjord.[1]

On most stretches of the shore mountains rise very steeply on both sides of the fjord culminating in sharp peaks. Most years the fjord is blocked with ice even in the summer.[4]

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See also

Bibliography

References
  1. "Fleming Fjord". Mapcarta. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
  2. "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
  3. Spencer Apollonio, Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland, 2008, p. 192
  4. Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 118
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