Antarctic Sound, Greenland

For the sound in Antarctica, see Antarctic Sound.

The Antarctic Sound (Danish: Antarctic Sund) is a sound in King Christian X Land, Northeast Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.^[1]

Antarctic Sound
Antarctic Sund
View of the Antarctic Sound
Antarctic Sound
Location	NE Greenland
Coordinates	73°6′N 25°24′W
Part of	Arctic Ocean
Ocean/sea sources	Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord King Oscar Fjord Greenland Sea
Basin countries	Greenland
Max. length	30 km (19 mi)
Max. width	3 km (1.9 mi)
Frozen	Most of the year

History

The sound was named by Alfred Gabriel Nathorst after his ship Antarctic,^[2] on which he found and first mapped this fjord branch in 1899 during the Swedish Greenland Expedition in search of survivors of S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897.^[3]

SS Antarctic, the ship after which the fjord was named.

Geography

It is a fjord forming a channel that runs roughly from northwest to southeast between the southern shore of mid Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord to the north and the head of King Oscar Fjord to the south. Its minimum width is 3 km.^[4]

The Antarctic Sound separates the northeastern shore of Suess Land —part of the Greenland mainland— from the southwestern shore of Ymer Island. Ruth Island lies off the southeastern mouth of the sound.^[5]

Map of Northeastern Greenland

Landsat satellite image of Ymer Island with the Antarctic Sound in the bottom left corner.

See also

• List of fjords of Greenland

• Niviarsiat, NE Greenland