O.B. Bøggild Fjord
{{Short description|Fjord in North Greenland}}
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| name= O.B. Bøggild Fjord
| other_name= O.B. Bøggilds Fjord
| image = Operational Navigation Chart A-5, 3rd edition.jpg
| caption = Map of Northern Ellesmere Island and far Northern Greenland
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Greenland
| location= Arctic
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| rivers= unnamed river
| oceans= De Long Fjord
Lincoln Sea
| countries= Greenland
| length={{convert|22|km|abbr=on}}
| width= {{convert|3.5|km|abbr=on}}
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| frozen= all year round
| settlements= none
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O.B. Bøggild Fjord ({{langx|da|O.B. Bøggilds Fjord}}) is a fjord in Peary Land, far northern Greenland.Google Maps
The fjord was first sighted in June 1917 by Knud Rasmussen and Lauge Koch from the top of Thule Mountain which rises in Hazenland above the shore of De Long Fjord. Rasmussen named it after Danish mineralogist Ove Balthasar Bøggild (1872-1956), a member of the Scientific Committee of the 1916-1918 Second Thule Expedition.
Geography
O.B. Bøggild Fjord is the most easterly offshoot of the three fjords in the inner part of the De Long Fjord system.[https://collections.dartmouth.edu/arctica-beta/html/EA14-13.html Geographical Items on North Greenland - Encyclopedia Arctica 14] Its northern shore forms the southern limit of Amundsen Land. To the south lies the Hans Tausen Ice Cap from which some glaciers flow into its southern shore. The fjord is roughly oriented in an east / west direction and is over {{convert|20|km|abbr=on}} in length. Cape Holger Danske is the headland to the north of the mouth of the fjord, and Cape Bopa the one to the south, at the northern end of the Adolf Jensen Fjord.Sailing Directions for the East Coast of Greenland. United States Hydrographic Office, p. 267
At the head of the fjord lies the western mouth of the Nordpasset, extending {{convert|25|km|mi|abbr=on}} in a ESE direction to the head of Frederick E. Hyde Fjord.[https://asiaq.maps.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=c5c7d9d52a264980a24911d7d33914b5 Nunat Aqqi; Stednavne]J. C. Escher & Poul-Henrik Larsen, The buried western extension of the Navarana Fjord escarpment in central and western North Greenland; p. 84
See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Organic-walled-microfossils-from-the-Boggild-Fjord-Formation-at-Rypely-a-b_fig3_334820506 Organic-walled microfossils from the Bøggild Fjord Formation]
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