Gael Hamke Bay

Gael Hamke Bay
Gael Hamkes Bugt
Map section with the bay in the lower right corner.
Gael Hamke Bay is located in Greenland
Gael Hamke Bay
Gael Hamke Bay
Location in Greenland
LocationArctic
Coordinates74°00′N 20°30′W / 74.000°N 20.500°W / 74.000; -20.500
Ocean/sea sourcesGreenland Sea
Basin countriesGreenland
SettlementsEskimonaes and Dødemandsbugten (abandoned)

Gael Hamke Bay (Danish: Gael Hamkes Bugt) is a large bay in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.

The bay was named after a Dutch skipper that claimed to have discovered the bay in 1654.[1]

  1. ^ "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 20 September 2019.