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Bessel Fjord, NW Greenland. Bowdoin Fjord. Carlsberg Fjord (Kangerterajitta Itterterilaq) Cass Fjord. Danmark Fjord. De Dodes Fjord. Deichmann Fjord. Dickson Fjord (branch of King Oscar Fjord notable due to the September 2023 rockslide and associated 9-day seismic event caused by a seiche megatsunami) Dijmphna Sound.
56,732 (February 8, 2020) Pop. density. 0.028/km 2 (0.073/sq mi) Ethnic groups. 88% Inuit (Inuit- Danish and Inuit- European mixed); 12% Europeans, mostly Danish. Greenland is located between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Canada and northwest of Iceland. The territory comprises the island of Greenland—the largest ...
Greenland (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, pronounced [kalaːɬːit nʉnaːt]; Danish: Grønland, pronounced [ˈkʁɶnˌlænˀ]) is a North American island autonomous territory [ 14 ] of the Kingdom of Denmark. [ 15 ] It is the larger of two autonomous territories within the Kingdom, the other being the Faroe Islands; the citizens of both ...
Fold on an island in King Oscar Fjord, thought to result from the Caledonian orogeny. Greenland is the largest island on Earth. Only one-fifth of its surface area is exposed bedrock, the rest being covered by ice. The exposed surface is approximately 410,000 km 2. The geology of Greenland is dominated by crystalline rocks of the Precambrian ...
Scoresby Sound. Scoresby Sound (Danish: Scoresby Sund, Greenlandic: Kangertittivaq) is a large fjord system of the Greenland Sea on the eastern coast of Greenland. It has a tree-like structure, with a main body approximately 110 km (68 mi) [2] long that branches into a system of fjords covering an area of about 38,000 km 2 (14,700 sq mi).
Ilulissat Icefjord (Greenlandic: Ilulissat Kangerlua) is a fjord in western Greenland. Located 250 km north of the Arctic Circle, the Ilulissat Icefjord runs west 40 km (25 mi) from the Greenland ice sheet to Disko Bay just south of the town of Ilulissat. [1] Ilulissat Icefjord was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004 because of its ...
Pages in category "Fjords of Greenland" The following 137 pages are in this category, out of 137 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Average depth. 49 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 ...