Ofjord ( Greenlandic : Ikaasakajik ; Danish : Øfjord , meaning 'Island Fjord') is a fjord in King Christian X Land , eastern Greenland . This fjord is part of the Scoresby Sound system. Administratively it lies in the area of Sermersooq municipality.
5-532: The Øfjord was named in 1891 by Carl Ryder during his 1891–92 East Greenland Expedition owing to the islands on the southern side of its mouth. The Greenlandic name Ikaasakajik ("the bad sound") originated in a 1955 name registration by the Geodetical Institute of Denmark (Geodætisk Institut) . The name makes reference to the persistent katabatic winds blowing along the fjord. The 4 km (2.5 mi) to 5 km (3.1 mi) wide Ofjord
10-564: A military career in the Royal Danish Navy becoming a Second Lieutenant in 1879 and Captain 1897. He led an expedition to the Upernavik Distrikt in 1886-1887 and, most famously, the 1891-1892 expedition to East Greenland by the vessel Hekla . The way north from Ittoqqortoormiit was effectively blocked by ice. Instead, Ryder made the first comprehensive mapping of the entire Scoresby Sund fjord system, except for
15-470: Is a sound with a fjord structure located in the northern Hall Gulf (Hall Bredning) , part of the inner Scoresby Sound. From its mouth near the Bjorne Islands this fjord runs in a roughly NE/SW direction for about 60 km (37 mi) until it bends and runs in a slightly more east–west direction for a further 35 km (22 mi). About 10 km (6.2 mi) before the confluence there
20-648: Is a sound branching on its southern shore towards the southwest, the Snesund . Further west the Rype Fjord branches to the northwest, the Hare Fjord continues in a westerly direction and the Rode Fjord (Røde Fjord) branches towards the south. To the northeast the fjord is bound by Renland , a peninsula attached to the mainland, and to the south by the island of Milne Land . The island of Storo lies on
25-580: The NW side of the Snesund. This Greenland location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Carl Ryder Carl Hartvig Ryder (12 September 1858 – 3 May 1923) was a Danish naval officer and Arctic explorer. Carl Ryder was born in Copenhagen . He was the son of Frederik Valentiner Ryder (1821-1909) and his wife Henriette Sophie Cathrine Husmann (1836-1896). He entered
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