Hunt Fjord
{{Short description|Fjord in Peary Land, Greenland}}
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Hunt Fjord is a fjord in Peary Land, northern Greenland. To the north the fjord has its mouth in the Lincoln Sea of the Arctic Ocean. Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park.
This fjord was named by Robert Peary in 1900.[https://collections.dartmouth.edu/arctica-beta/html/EA14-13.html Geographical Items on North Greenland Encyclopedia Arctica 14]
Geography
Hunt Fjord opens to the Lincoln Sea to the east of Conger Sound and to the west of Benedict Fjord.{{cite web|url=https://mapcarta.com/19192520|title=Hunt Fjord|work=Mapcarta|accessdate=11 June 2019}} It stretches in a southeast–northwest direction for about {{convert|20|km|abbr=on}}.GoogleEarth
Cape Kane is the headland on the western and Cape Washington on the eastern side of the mouth. On the western Roosevelt Land side the fjord is under the influence of slow-moving glaciers discharging on both sides of Cape Kane that completely fill it and partially clog neighboring Conger Sund as well.[https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/11771240.pdf North Greenland Glacier Velocities and Calf Ice Production] The large Thomas Glacier discharges at the head of Hunt Fjord from the western end of the Roosevelt Range.Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 95 The Raven Glacier discharges on the eastern side, closer to the mouth, south of Cape Washington. R. E. Peary, Report of RE Peary, CE, USN, on Work Done in the Arctic in 1898-1902, 1903 - JSTOR The western shore of the fjord is glaciated with dark pointed nunataks protruding between short valleys filled with glaciers.
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|File:Operational Navigation Chart A-5, 3rd edition.jpg and far Northern Greenland.]] |
Bibliography
- U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, Volume 1386, Part 3
See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.jstor.org/stable/40506675?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Crossing North Peary Land in Summer 1953]
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