Fligely Fjord
{{Short description|Fjord in Greenland}}
{{Infobox body of water
| name= Fligely Fjord
| other_name=
| image = Clavering 1932.tif
| caption = Map section showing the southern part of Fligely Fjord at the top.
| pushpin_map = Greenland
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Greenland
| location= Arctic
| coords= {{coord|74|56|N|20|37|W|region:RU_type:waterbody_source:GNS-enwiki|display=inline, title}}
| rivers=
| oceans= Lindeman Fjord
Hochstetter Bay
Greenland Sea
| countries= Greenland
| length = {{convert|40|km}}
| width = {{convert|4|km}}
| frozen= Most of the year
| area=
| settlements= A few hunting huts
}}
Fligely Fjord is a fjord in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.
History
The fjord was first surveyed by Carl Koldewey during the 1869–70 Second German North Polar Expedition. Koldewey named it after Austrian cartographer Field Marshal August von Fligely (1810–1879).{{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 = 20 September 2019}}
There are a number of hunter cabins in the shores of the fjord.
Geography
Fligely Fjord is a marine channel with a fjord structure that stretches west of Kuhn Island and north of the mouth area of Lindeman Fjord. It forms the western shore of the island and to the west the eastern shore of Thomas Thomsen Land. The mouth of Grandjean Fjord lies west of the fjord's northern end.{{cite web|url=https://mapcarta.com/19189844|title=Lindeman Fjord|work=Mapcarta|accessdate=25 September 2019}}
The fjord is about {{convert|4|km}} wide in its widest part and stretches from north to south for about {{convert|40|km}}.Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 123
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|File:Operational Navigation Chart B-9, 1st edition.jpg |File:Greenland.A2003233.1340.250m.jpg satellite image]] |
See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/catalogue/bpa/browse/page10.html Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge - Museum catalogue]
- [https://www.uib.no/en/geo/98776/field-report-greenland-basin-analysis-high-gear Field report from Greenland: basin analysis in high gear]
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