Wolstenholme Fjord
{{Short description|Fjord in Greenland}}
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Wolstenholme Fjord ({{langx|kl|Uummannap Kangerlua}}){{cite web|url=https://mapcarta.com/20007804|title=Wolstenholme Fjord|work=Mapcarta|accessdate=9 May 2019}} is a fjord in Avannaata municipality, Northwest Greenland. The United States' Pituffik Space Base and the abandoned Inuit settlement of Narsaarsuk are on the coast of the fjord.
The area was contaminated in 1968 with plutonium and other radioactive elements following a B-52 bomber crash.{{cite journal|journal=USAF Nuclear Safety|first=Asker|last=Aarkrog|title=Radio-Ecological Investigations|publisher=Danish Atomic Energy Commission|date=January 1970}}
Geography
Wolstenholme Fjord is located in the stretch of coast between Cape York and Cape Alexander. Together with the Inglefield Gulf it is one of the two main indentations in the area.Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 77
Saunders Island, Wolstenholme Island and Bylot Sound lie at the mouth of the fjord, off North Star Bay. Further to the west on the northern shore lies the Granville Fjord.
The fjord's waters are fed by four large glaciers: the Salisbury Glacier, the Chamberlin Glacier, the Knud Rasmussen Glacier, and the Harald Moltke Glacier.
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See also
References
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Further reading
- Svend Funder, [https://books.google.com/books?id=DcMv6tS9RzkC&pg=PA18 Late Quaternary Stratigraphy and Glaciology in the Thule Area, Northwest Greenland]
- United States. Defense Mapping Agency, United States. Naval Oceanographic Office, [https://books.google.com/books?id=DtdHAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA338 Sailing Directions for West Coast of Greenland, Volumes 16-968], PP 338 - 339
- Steven J. Mock, [https://books.google.com/books?id=LPODlUM4H9IC&pg=PA1 Fluctuations of the terminus of the Moltke Glacier], Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (U.S.), P 2