| Bessel Fjord | |
| Other Name: | Bessels Fjord |
| Pushpin Map: | Greenland |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location |
| Location: | Arctic |
| Coords: | 80.9167°N -68°W |
| Oceans: | Kennedy Channel Nares Strait |
| Countries: | Greenland |
| Length: | 60km (40miles) |
| Width: | 3.5km (02.2miles) |
| 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:
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.[2]
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]