Bredefjord
Bredefjord is a fjord in northeastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.
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Map of Northeastern Greenland.
Tundra climate prevails in the area of the fjord, the average annual temperature in the area being -14°C . The warmest month is July when the average temperature rises to 1°C and the coldest is January with -23°C.
Geography
Bredefjord is oriented in a roughly NW/SE direction and its mouth opens at the junction with the Smallefjord from the west into the Ardencaple Fjord, Hochstetter Bay, Greenland Sea. The large Stormgletscher and Ejnar Mikkelsen glaciers form a confluence at its head.
Norlund Land, part of Queen Margrethe II Land, lies to the north of the fjord and C. H. Ostenfeld Land to the south.
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See also
References
- ^ "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. Archived from the original on 11 May 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
- ^ Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 124
- ^ "Bredefjord". Mapcarta. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
- ^ "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
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