Foster Bay () is a large bay of the

Greenland Sea The Greenland Sea ( Danish: ''Grønlandshavet'') is a body of water that borders Greenland to the west, the Svalbard archipelago to the east, Fram Strait and the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Norwegian Sea and Iceland to the south. The Gre ...

King Christian X Land King Christian X Land (; ) is an area of northeastern Greenland. History This area was named after King Christian X of Denmark and Iceland (). At the time of the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland, it is reported that, when Lauge Koch w ...

, Eastern

Greenland Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. It is by far the largest geographically of three constituent parts of the kingdom; the other two are metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenlan ...

. Administratively it belongs to the NE Greenland National Park area.

Geography

The bay lies north-east of Geographical Society Island. The Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord has its mouth in the bay, between Cape Mackenzie at the eastern end of Geographical Society Island and Cape Franklin, the southern end of the mainland's

Gauss Peninsula Gauss Peninsula () is a peninsula in eastern Greenland. Administratively this peninsula is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. History The second German North Polar Expedition 1869–70 originally gave the name ''Cap Gauss'' to ...

; Bantekoe Island lies in the bay off the mouth of the fjord.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 120 The eastern end of the

and the southern shore of

Hold with Hope Hold with Hope is a peninsula in eastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. Geologically Hold with Hope is a place of great interest. Geography Hold with Hope is located between Loch Fyne in t ...

form the northern limit of the bay.

Mackenzie Bay MacKenzie Bay is a relatively small embayment of the western extremity of the Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica, about northeast of Foley Promontory. On 10 February 1931 the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) sigh ...

with

Myggbukta Myggbukta () was a Norwegian whaling, meteorological and radio station (Myggbukta Radio/LMG) located on the coast of Eastern Greenland in present-day King Christian X Land. The site is located at the head of Mackenzie Bay, in the area of the is ...

is located roughly in the middle of this northern shore.

References

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