Bessel Fjord
Bessels Fjord
Bessel Fjord Location
Location	Arctic
Coordinates	80°55′N63°5′W / 80.917°N 63.083°W / 80.917; -63.083
Ocean/sea sources	Kennedy Channel Nares Strait
Basin  countries	Greenland
Max. length	60 km (37 mi)
Max. width	3.5 km (2.2 mi)
Frozen	Most of the year [ when? ]
Settlements	Uninhabited

Bessel Fjord (Danish : Bessels Fjord) is a fjord in northwestern Greenland. ^[1] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.

Contents

• Geography
• Bibliography
• See also
• References
• External links

Knud Rasmussen described the fjord entrance in the following terms:

We passed Bessel Fjord in a fresh breeze, and the peculiar indentation, surrounded on all sides by steep mountains intersected by hanging tongues of ice, looked eerie and desolate. ^[2]

Geography

Bessel Fjord stretches roughly from north to south for about 60 km. It is a long and narrow fjord lined with high mountains rising steeply from the shore. Hannah Island, a small island, lies in the area of its mouth by the Kennedy Channel, Cape Bryan is on the western side of the mouth and Cape Maynard on the northeastern. ^[3]

This fjord is located northeast of Washington Land, at the northern end of Daugaard-Jensen Land. The Petermann Peninsula forms its eastern shore. There are large ice caps on both landmasses flanking the fjord. ^[1]

Bibliography

• H.P. Trettin (ed.), Geology of the Innuitian Orogen and Arctic Platform of Canada and Greenland. Geological Survey of Canada (1991) ISBN   978-0660131313

See also

• List of fjords of Greenland

References

External links

• Greenland place names and spelling, by T. Higgins

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