Academy Fjord
{{Short description|Fjord in Avannaata, Greenland}}
{{about||the bay in Russia|Academy Bay (Sea of Okhotsk)|the bay in the Galápagos Islands|Academy Bay}}
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Baffin Bay
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Academy Fjord or Academy Bay ({{langx|da|Academy Bugt}}) is a fjord in northern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.
The fjord was named by Robert Peary after the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.
Geography
The Academy Fjord opens to the northwest into the inner end of the Inglefield Gulf, close to its head and south of the Harvard Islands.{{cite web|url=https://mapcarta.com/20008762|title=Academy Bugt|work=Mapcarta|accessdate=28 March 2019}} The fjord is bordered on both sides by unglaciated plateaux reaching approximately {{convert|1000|m|abbr=on}}. The northeastern one, Nunatarsuaq, is a nunatak dotted with lakes. The southwestern side of the fjord is fringed by a continuous wall of almost vertical cliffs extending from a promontory at the mouth of the fjord beyond the head into the glacier area. The northeastern side of the fjord is also flanked by cliffs, but near the mouth it is cut by a few deep valleys through which the inner Nunatarsuaq plateau is accessible.Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 90
The head of the fjord is close to the head of Olrik Fjord, where the Leidy Glacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet through the Academy Glacier into both fjords.[https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/85131/greenlands-leidy-glacier Greenland’s Leidy Glacier; NASA Earth Observatory]
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See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.academia.edu/27445426/Qaanaaq_2001_mineral_exploration_reconnaissance_in Qaanaaq 2001: mineral exploration reconnaissance in North-West Greenland]
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