Other Name: | Antarctic Bugt |
Pushpin Map: | Greenland |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Greenland |
Location: | Peary Land, Arctic |
Oceans: | Greenland Sea |
Countries: | Greenland |
Length: | 14km (09miles) |
Width: | 17km (11miles) |
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.
The bay was named by the 1906-1908 Denmark expedition after Alfred Gabriel Nathorst's ship Antarctic.[2]
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 50km (30miles) 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.