Bessel Fjord | |
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Bessels Fjord | |
Location | Arctic |
Coordinates | 80°55′N 63°5′W / 80.917°N 63.083°W |
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 |
Settlements | Uninhabited |
Bessel Fjord (Danish: Bessels Fjord) is a fjord in northwestern Greenland.[1] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.
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]
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]