Newman Bay
{{Short description|Fjord in Greenland}}
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Newman Bugt
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Newman Bay ({{langx|da|Newman Bugt}}) or Newman Fjord is a fjord in northern Greenland. To the northwest, the fjord opens into the Robeson Channel of the Lincoln Sea. It is a part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.
There are muskoxen near the shores of the fjord.Euphemia Vale Blake (ed.), Journey to the Arctic: The True Story of the Disastrous 1871 Mission to the North Pole, p. 180
History
The fjord was named after the Reverend Dr. Newman of Washington, D.C. in September 1871 during the Polaris expedition by Charles Francis Hall. It would be the last place Hall named in Greenland, for he was taken ill shortly thereafter and died in November the same year.Clements R. Markham, The Lands of Silence, p. 300
Geography
Newman fjord is roughly SE/NW oriented and opens to the northwest. To the west lies Hall Land with the Polaris Foreland in the shore near its mouth and to the east Nyeboe Land, both largely unglaciated areas. Nina Bang Mountain rises to the east of the fjord and the Haug Range, with Kayser Mountain, to the SW of its shores.{{cite web|url=https://mapcarta.com/19188906|title=Newman Bugt|work=Mapcarta|accessdate=27 February 2019}}
The fjord's mouth is located close to the entrance of the Robeson Channel in the Lincoln Sea, Arctic Ocean; Cape Sumner is the headland on the southwestern side and Cape Brevoort on the northeastern.Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 94 There are a few small islands in the inner reaches midway between the mouth and its head.GoogleEarth Several small streams empty into the fjord, as well as a glacier at its head which discharges from the Greenland Ice Cap.
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See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/10.1139/e85-147#.XHZeeYgzbIU The late Quaternary history of Hall Land, northwest Greenland]
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