Sehested Fjord ( kl, Uummannap Kangertiva)Den grønlandske Lods - Geodatastyrelsen
/ref>) is a fjord of the King Frederick VI Coast in the Sermersooq municipality, southeastern Greenland. This fjord was named in 1829 by Lieutenant

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after Danish Admiral Christen Thomesen Sehested.

Geography

Sehested Fjord is located north of Timmiarmiut Fjord. To the east it opens into the North Atlantic Ocean with Uiivaq and the entrance of Kattertooq Fjord on the northern side of its mouth and

Griffenfeld Island Griffenfeld Island, Griffenfeldt Island, ( da, Griffenfeld Ø) or Umanaq ("the mountain in the shape of a heart"), after the name of the highest peak. is an uninhabited island in the Sermersooq municipality in southern Greenland. History The isla ...

on the southern side. Annat Fjord, with Tasiusaq Bay on its western side, is an inlet on the northern shore of the fjord located 17 km from its mouth. Sikuijuitsoq is another small tributary fjord branching from the Sehested Fjord on the southern shore opposite Annat Fjord. This fjord has large, active glaciers at its head. The Rimfaxe,

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and

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glaciers have their confluence shortly before their terminus at the northwestern end of the fjord. Flowing from the west, the Garm glacier has two branches near its terminus, one flowing southwards into the Ernineq Fjord of the Timmiarmiut fjord system and the other eastwards into the Sikuijuitsoq, the southern branch of the Sehested Fjord. File:King Frederick VI Coast 2005-08-22 03.jpg, Sehested Fjord (right) File:King Frederick VI Coast 2005-08-22 02.jpg, Sehested Fjord (right) File:King Frederick VI Coast 2005-08-22 01.jpg, Sehested Fjord (middle) and Uiivaq

Mountains

There are high mountains on both sides of the fjord. high Peberbøssen, a prominent peak, rises on the

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''(Kong Dan Halvø)'' on the northern side near the entrance. Further inland a high summit rises in the north at . In the western side, a high summit rises at . The Skirnir Mountains ''(Skirners Bjerge)'' are a

nunatak A nunatak (from Inuit ''nunataq'') is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge. They are also called glacial islands. Examples are natural pyramidal peaks. ...

group rising at between the Heimdal and Garm glaciers in the inner part of the fjord. GoogleEarth

References

External links

Images - Sehested Fjord (Greenland)''Climate-related glacier fluctuations in southeast Greenland'', Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Department of Marine Geology and Glaciology, Copenhagen, Denmark
Fjords of Greenland Sermersooq {{Greenland-geo-stub

Geography

Mountains

See also

References

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