Rode Fjord ( Danish : Røde Fjord , meaning 'Red Fjord') is a fjord in King Christian X Land , eastern Greenland . The Rode Fjord is part of the Scoresby Sound complex in the area of Sermersooq municipality.
6-589: The 5 km (3.1 mi) to 11 km (6.8 mi) wide Rode Fjord is located in the inner Scoresby Sound. At its southern end the fjord is a northerly continuation of the Fonfjord . On the western shore, near the confluence, the Rolige Brae glacier flows into the fjord and a little further south the Vestfjord branches off to the west. There is a small island in the area named Rode Island (Røde Ø) . At
12-660: 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. This long fjord was surveyed and named in 1891 by Carl Ryder during his 1891–92 East Greenland Expedition . It was named "Føhnfjord" owing to the powerful Foehn wind gusts blowing during the first exploration of the fjord in August 1891. Ryder wrote: ... Icebergs now came sailing out of
18-581: Is the Fonfjord and the southern is the much wider mouth of the Gaasefjord (Gåsefjord) . Gaaseland (Gåseland) is the peninsula that lies between these two fjords. To the north the fjord is bound by Milne Land and to the south by Gaaseland. Danmark Island lies at the eastern end, by its mouth. Ten kilometers before the mouth, the fjord has a branch in the northeastern shore named Rensund that separates Danmark Island from Milne Land. Fonfjord makes
24-468: The fjord in a strong current, and with very frequent calving perhaps because of the warm temperature. Another name given by former surveyors was Blastfjord , by Hans Christian Gulløv . In the southern Scoresby Sound, between Cape Leslie in Milne Land to the north and Cape Stevenson to the south, there are the mouths of two fjords that go in a roughly southwestern direction. The northern branch
30-689: The northern end the Rode Fjord is a southern offshoot of the Ofjord . From the confluence of the Ofjord, the Hare Fjord runs in a westerly direction and the Rype Fjord branches to the northwest while the wider Rode Fiord branches to the southwest off the western shore of Storo Island for about 50 km (31 mi). This fjord separates the larger island of Milne Land from the mainland coast in
36-463: The west. The Snesund is a shorter fjord branching off in a northeasterly direction about halfway through the Rode Fjord separating Storo and Sorte Island from Milne Land. This article about a fjord in Greenland is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Fonfjord Fonfjord ( Greenlandic : Ujuaakajiip Kangertiva ; Danish : Fønfjord , meaning ' Foehn Fjord')
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