Petermann Fjord | |
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Location | Arctic |
Coordinates | 81°10′N 61°30′W / 81.167°N 61.500°W |
River sources | Petermann Glacier |
Ocean/sea sources | Hall Basin Nares Strait |
Basin countries | Greenland |
Max. length | 110 km (68 mi) |
Max. width | 17 km (11 mi) |
Frozen | Most of the year |
Settlements | Uninhabited |
Petermann Fjord is a fjord in northwestern Greenland.[1] Administratively it marks the boundary between the Avannaata municipality and the Northeast Greenland National Park.
The fjord and its glacier are named after German cartographer August Heinrich Petermann.[2]
Knud Rasmussen described the fjord entrance in the following terms:
This fjord looked quaint and foreign in its surroundings. Everywhere the mountains along the coast fall steeply down towards the ice, and the dark-brownish tones showed gloomy and serious against the even, white inland-ice which appears everywhere as a bank of white fog behind the coastland. In several places along the fjord, tongues of the glacier shoot down between the mountains, but at no point here is the production of ice-mountains apparent.[3]