O.B. Bøggild Fjord
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O.B. Bøggild Fjord (Danish: O.B. Bøggilds Fjord) is a fjord in Peary Land, far northern Greenland.[1]
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Location in Greenland | |
Location | Arctic |
Coordinates | 83°00′N 38°29′W |
River sources | unnamed river |
Ocean/sea sources | De Long Fjord Lincoln Sea |
Basin countries | Greenland |
Max. length | 22 km (14 mi) |
Max. width | 3.5 km (2.2 mi) |
Frozen | all year round |
Settlements | none |
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The fjord was first sighted in June 1917 by Knud Rasmussen and Lauge Koch from the top of Thule Mountain which rises in Hazenland above the shore of De Long Fjord. Rasmussen named it after Danish mineralogist Ove Balthasar Bøggild (1872-1956), a member of the Scientific Committee of the 1916-1918 Second Thule Expedition.[2]