Fleming Fjord
{{Short description|Bay in Sermersooq, Greenland}}
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Fleming Fjord is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland.{{cite web|url=https://mapcarta.com/19193300|title=Fleming Fjord|work=Mapcarta|accessdate=12 August 2019}}
Administratively it lies in the Sermersooq Municipality.
History
This fjord was named "Fleming Inlet" by British explorer William Scoresby (1789 – 1857) after Scottish scholar John Fleming (1785–1857). Scoresby assumed that this fjord connected with "Hall Inlet" (Hall Bredning) to the south.
After more than a century, this fjord was finally properly explored and mapped by Danish Arctic explorer Georg Carl Amdrup during the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland (Treårsekspeditionen) (1931–1934). Although Amdrup's survey proved that it was a fjord, the name "Fleming Inlet" continued to be used on maps for many years.{{cite web | title = Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland | publisher = Geological Survey of Denmark | url = https://data.geus.dk/geusmap/?mapname=stednavnedb#baslay=baseMapGl&optlay=&extent=549832.8357720698,8582739.868248867,622444.3190166993,8680765.370629115&layers=grl_geus_north_east_higgins_map,grl_ne_higgins_placenames,grl_ne_placenames&filter_1=txt_search.part%3D%26placename%3D&filter_2=txt_search.part%3D%26placename%3D | accessdate =12 August 2019}}
A small wintering station was built in 1934 on the east side of Fleming Fjord near Cape Brown at the mouth of the Vimmelskaftet Valley during the time of the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland.Spencer Apollonio, Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland, 2008, p. 192
A Norwegian hunting hut was built in 1954 on the north side of the fjord {{convert|10|km|abbr=on}} SW of Kap Biot, at the time of Hermann Andresen’s expedition. Another one was built nearby in 1955 by Otto Lapstun, who had moved it from nearby Nathorst Fjord.
Geography
Fleming Fjord is located SE of the mouth of Davy Sound, cutting into Jameson Land, extending roughly southwestwards for about {{convert|27|km|abbr=on}}. The NW side of its mouth lies at the limit of Sermersooq Municipality, the Northeast Greenland National Park lying beyond Cape Biot. To the east lies the Wegener Peninsula and Cape Brown, beyond which lies Nathorst Fjord.
On most stretches of the shore mountains rise very steeply on both sides of the fjord culminating in sharp peaks. Most years the fjord is blocked with ice even in the summer.Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 118
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See also
Bibliography
- [https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app003742017.html Jens N. Lallensack, Hendrik Klein, Jesper Milàn, Oliver Wings, Octávio Mateus, and Lars B. Clemmensen. Sauropodomorph dinosaur trackways from the Fleming Fjord Formation of East Greenland: Evidence for Late Triassic sauropods, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 62 (4), 2017: 833-843]
References
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External links
- [https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Simplified-geologic-map-of-Central-Fjord-region-of-East-Greenland-showing-structural_fig1_242315915 Simplified geologic map of Central Fjord region of East Greenland]
- [https://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/early/2015/12/14/SP434.3 The vertebrate-bearing Late Triassic Fleming Fjord Formation of central East Greenland revisited: Stratigraphy, palaeoclimate and new palaeontological data.]
- [http://grantome.com/grant/NSF/EAR-9204789 The Late Triassic Tetrapod Fauna of the Fleming Fjord Formation, East Greenland]
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