Nordfjord (Greenland)

Nordfjord
View of the Nordfjord with the calving end of the Waltershausen Glacier
Nordfjord is located in Greenland
Nordfjord
Nordfjord
Location within Greenland
LocationNE Greenland
Coordinates73°40′N 24°15′W / 73.667°N 24.250°W / 73.667; -24.250
Ocean/sea sourcesKaiser Franz Joseph Fjord
Greenland Sea
Basin countriesGreenland
Max. length60 kilometres (37 mi)
Max. width13.3 kilometres (8.3 mi)
Average depth49 metres (161 ft)

Nordfjord is a fjord in the NE Greenland National Park area, East Greenland.

The fjord was named in 1899 by Swedish Arctic explorer A.G. Nathorst during the expedition he led to Greenland. In 1931 a scientific station known as Nordfjordhuset was built on the western shore of the fjord at the time of the 1931–34 Treårsekspeditionen.[1]

  1. ^ "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 21 April 2016.

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