Academy Fjord

Academy Fjord or Academy Bay (Danish: Academy Bugt) is a fjord in northern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.

For the bay in Russia, see Academy Bay (Sea of Okhotsk). For the bay in the Galápagos Islands, see Academy Bay.
Academy Fjord
Academy Bay / Academy Bugt
Academy Fjord
Location in Greenland
LocationArctic
Coordinates77°18′N 66°30′W
Ocean/sea sourcesInglefield Gulf
Baffin Bay
Basin countriesGreenland
Max. length25 km (16 mi)
Max. width3.5 km (2.2 mi)

The fjord was named by Robert Peary after the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.

Geography

The Academy Fjord opens to the northwest into the inner end of the Inglefield Gulf, close to its head and south of the Harvard Islands.[1] The fjord is bordered on both sides by unglaciated plateaux reaching approximately 1,000 m (3,300 ft). The northeastern one, Nunatarsuaq, is a nunatak dotted with lakes. The southwestern side of the fjord is fringed by a continuous wall of almost vertical cliffs extending from a promontory at the mouth of the fjord beyond the head into the glacier area. The northeastern side of the fjord is also flanked by cliffs, but near the mouth it is cut by a few deep valleys through which the inner Nunatarsuaq plateau is accessible.[2]

The head of the fjord is close to the head of Olrik Fjord, where the Leidy Glacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet through the Academy Glacier into both fjords.[3]

Map of Northwestern Greenland
19th century map of the Inglefield Gulf.

See also

References
  1. "Academy Bugt". Mapcarta. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  2. Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 90
  3. Greenland’s Leidy Glacier; NASA Earth Observatory


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