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13-510: Inglefield Gulf was named after English explorer Edward Augustus Inglefield . Qaanaaq is located in the northern entrance of the fjord. The village of Qeqertat is located in the Harvard Islands , in the inner area of the fjord. Both are the northernmost communities in the world. Together with Wolstenholme Fjord , Inglefield Gulf is one of the two main indentations in the stretch of coast between Cape York and Cape Alexander . On

26-601: A bay at the northern side of the head of the fjord where the smaller Hart Glacier , Sharp Glacier , Melville Glacier , and Farquhar Glacier have their terminus. As they discharge into the fjord all these glaciers are separated by nunataks , the largest of which is the Smithson Range . In the central area of the fjord the Hubbard Glacier discharges on the northern shore and the Hurlbut Glacier on

39-536: Is linked by several channels to Norwegian Bay ; at its eastern end it opens via Glacier Strait into Baffin Bay . The hamlet of Grise Fiord was established on the south shore Ellesmere Island in 1953, partly to assert Canadian sovereignty in the high Arctic . The first known European to sight the sound was the English explorer William Baffin in 1616 who named it after one of his patrons. The next European to pass it

52-638: The Inglefield Land region and the Inglefield Gulf of Greenland. Inglefield set out from Britain on his search in July 1852, commanding Lady Franklin 's private steamer Isabel , seven years after Sir John Franklin had left on his ill-fated search for the fabled Northwest Passage . Once Inglefield had reached the Arctic, a search and survey of Greenland's west coast was made; Ellesmere Island

65-557: The Franklin expedition, Inglefield was fêted on his return for the surveying his expedition had achieved. The Royal Geographical Society awarded him its 1853 Patron's Medal "for his enterprising survey of the coasts of Baffin Bay, Smith Sound and Lancaster Sound." Inglefield made two further voyages to the Arctic in HMS ; Phoenix , to supply the search for the Franklin expedition overseen by Sir Edward Belcher . He returned from

78-594: The crews had retreated. Most of these men returned with Inglefield to Britain. Soon after his return from the Arctic, Inglefield was sent to join the Crimean War in the Black Sea as captain of HMS Firebrand , where he took part in the siege of Sevastopol . After the Crimean War, he captained a number of ships and continued to rise through the ranks. In 1869, he was made a rear admiral and three years later

91-540: The daughter of Edward Johnston, Esq. of Allerton Hall , Liverpool . Together, they were the parents of four sons and one daughter: Inglefield died in 1894; he is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery in west London. Jones Sound Jones Sound is a waterway in Qikiqtaaluk , Nunavut , Canada. It lies between Devon Island and the southern end of Ellesmere Island . At its northwestern end it

104-491: The first of these in 1853, bringing with him the first officer to have traversed the Northwest Passage, Samuel Gurney Cresswell of HMS  Investigator . The Investigator had also been sent to join the search for the Franklin expedition, but starting from the western side of northern Canada. Arriving back in the Arctic the following year, 1854, Inglefield found Belcher's ships abandoned, save one to which

117-773: The northern shore of the fjord there is a branch, the Bowdoin Fjord , and on the southern there are two, the Academy Bay in the inner fjord with the Leidy Glacier at its head and the narrow Olrik Fjord running roughly from east to west. The Heilprin Glacier , flowing from the Greenland Ice Sheet in the east, is the largest glacier that has its terminus in the fjord. The Tracy Glacier has its terminus further north near Josephine Peary Island in

130-684: The southern shore. The islands of Qeqertarsuaq (Herbert Island) and Kiatak (Northumberland Island) lie off the fjord's mouth. They are aligned from east to west, dividing the outer gulf into two sounds, the Murchison Sound to the north beyond Cape Ackland , and the Hvalsund to the south, west of Kangeq . This Greenland location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Edward Augustus Inglefield Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield KCB FRS FRGS (27 March 1820 – 4 September 1894)

143-440: Was a Royal Navy officer who led one of the searches for the missing Arctic explorer John Franklin during the 1850s. In doing so, his expedition charted previously unexplored areas along the northern Canadian coastline, including Baffin Bay , Smith Sound and Lancaster Sound . He was also the inventor of the marine hydraulic steering gear and the anchor design that bears his name. HMS  Inglefield bears his name, as do

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156-532: Was appointed Admiral Superintendent of Malta Dockyard . Promotions to vice admiral and then admiral followed, between which he was knighted . In 1878, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies Station . Inglefield retired in 1885. Thereafter he devoted much of his time to painting and his watercolours of Arctic landscapes were exhibited at several art galleries in London. On 30 April 1857, Inglefield married Eliza Fanny Johnston (1836–1890),

169-676: Was resighted and named in honour of the president of the Royal Geographical Society . Smith Sound was penetrated further than any known records; Jones Sound was also searched; and a landing was made at Beechey Island in Lancaster Sound. No sign, however, of Franklin's expedition was found. Finally, before the onset of winter forced Inglefield to turn homewards, the expedition searched and charted much of Baffin Island 's eastern coast. Despite finding no traces of

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