Antarctic Bay (Greenland) Explained

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.

History

The bay was named by the 1906-1908 Denmark expedition after Alfred Gabriel Nathorst's ship Antarctic.[2]

Geography

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.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Antarctic Bay. GeoHack. 19 June 2021.
  2. Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland. Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.
  3. Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 128.
  4. Web site: The Kilen Expedition 1985 . 2dgf.dk . June 3, 1993 . Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark.