Antarctic Bay (Greenland)
| Antarctic Bay | |
|---|---|
| Antarctic Bugt | |
  Antarctic Bay Location in Greenland | |
| Location | Peary Land, Arctic |
| Coordinates | 81°3′N 14°20′W / 81.050°N 14.333°W |
| Ocean/sea sources | Greenland Sea |
| Basin countries | Greenland |
| Max. length | 14 km (8.7 mi) |
| Max. width | 17 km (11 mi) |
| Frozen | All year round |
| Settlements | 0 |
Antarctic Bay (Danish: Antarctic Bugt) is a bay in the Greenland Sea coast of the Crown Prince Christian Land peninsula, King Frederick VIII Land, Northeastern Greenland.[1] Administratively the bay and its surroundings belong to the Northeast Greenland National Park.
The area of the bay is uninhabited.
History
[edit]The bay was named by the 1906-1908 Denmark expedition after Alfred Gabriel Nathorst's ship Antarctic.[2]
Geography
[edit]Antarctic Bay opens to the Fram Strait of the Greenland Sea. It lies between Amdrup Land to the west and the Flade Isblink ice cap to the north. It is a fairly wide bay, with the Nordostrundingen about 50 km (31 mi) to the northeast of its unnamed northeastern point. Sophus Müller Naes is the southwestern point of the bay.[3] Kilen lies just a few km north of the ice-covered head and northeastern shore of the bay.[4] The waters of bay are clogged by fast ice the year round.
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References
[edit]- ^ "Antarctic Bay". GeoHack. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
- ^ Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland. Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.
- ^ Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 128.
- ^ "The Kilen Expedition 1985" (PDF). 2dgf.dk. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark. June 3, 1993.
External links
[edit]- Tectono-stratigraphic history of Northern Amdrup Land, North-East Greenland - Implications for the northernmost East Greenland shelf
- Synthetic structural map of the base of the Kim Fjelde Formation
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