Olrik Fjord

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]

Olrik Fjord
Olrik Fjord
Location in Greenland
LocationArctic
Coordinates77°12′N 67°34′W
Native nameKangerluarsussuaq
Ocean/sea sourcesHvalsund
Baffin Bay
Basin countriesGreenland
Max. length80 km (50 mi)
Max. width5 km (3.1 mi)
SettlementsNaajat

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]

Map of Northwestern Greenland
19th century map of the Inglefield Gulf.

Bibliography

See also

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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