Lindeman Fjord
{{Short description|Fjord in Greenland}}
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| other_name= Lindeman Bugt
| image = Clavering 1932.tif
| caption = Map section showing the Lindeman Fjord area.
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Greenland
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| rivers=
| oceans= Hochstetter Bay
Greenland Sea
| countries= Greenland
| length = {{convert|25|km}}
| width = {{convert|5|km}}
| frozen= Most of the year
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Lindeman Fjord is a fjord in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.
History
The outer part of the fjord was first surveyed by Carl Koldewey during the 1869–70 Second German North Polar Expedition. Koldewey named it Lindeman Bai after Moritz Karl Adolf Lindeman (1823 – 1908), secretary of the Association for German Polar Exploration (Verein für die Deutsche Nordpolarfahrt) in Bremen.
Later, during the 1929–1930 Expedition to East Greenland led by Lauge Koch, more thorough surveys were made and the fjord was found to become narrow to the west and extend further inland, thus the water body was renamed "Lindeman Fjord".{{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}}
Geography
Lindeman Fjord opens to the east, southwest of Kuhn Island and south of the mouth area of Fligely Fjord. It extends southwest of Kuhn Island, west of Cape Schumacher at the southern end of the island. To the south lies A. P. Olsen Land and Thomas Thomsen Land lies to the north.{{cite web|url=https://mapcarta.com/19189844|title=Lindeman Fjord|work=Mapcarta|accessdate=21 September 2019}}
The fjord is about {{convert|5|km}} wide at the entrance and stretches to the west for about {{convert|25|km}}, curving slightly southwestwards and narrowing to less than {{convert|2.5|km}} before the head.Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 123 A massive mountain named Hohe Kugel rises north of the mouth of the fjord. Svejstrup Dal, a long valley at the head of Lindemann Fjord, stretches northwestwards between A. P. Olsen Land and Thomas Thomsen Land
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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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