Antarctic Bay (Greenland)

Antarctic Bay (Danish: Antarctic Bugt) is a bay in the Greenland Sea coast of the Crown Prince Christian Land peninsula, King Frederick VIII Land, Northeastern Greenland.[1] Administratively the bay and its surroundings belong to the Northeast Greenland National Park.

For the bay in Scoresby Land, Greenland, see Antarctic Haven. For the bay in South Georgia Island, see Antarctic Bay.
Antarctic Bay
Antarctic Bugt
Antarctic Bay is located in Greenland
Antarctic Bay
Antarctic Bay
Location in Greenland
LocationPeary Land, Arctic
Coordinates81°3′N 14°20′W
Ocean/sea sourcesGreenland Sea
Basin countriesGreenland
Max. length14 km (8.7 mi)
Max. width17 km (11 mi)
FrozenAll year round
Settlements0

The area of the bay is uninhabited.

History

The bay was named by the 1906-1908 Denmark expedition after Alfred Gabriel Nathorst's ship Antarctic.[2]

Geography

Antarctic Bay opens to the Fram Strait of the Greenland Sea. It lies between Amdrup Land to the west and the Flade Isblink ice cap to the north. It is a fairly wide bay, with the Nordostrundingen about 50 km (31 mi) to the northeast of its unnamed northeastern point. Sophus Müller Naes is the southwestern point of the bay.[3] Kilen lies just a few km north of the ice-covered head and northeastern shore of the bay.[4] The waters of bay are clogged by fast ice the year round.

Map of Crown Prince Christian Land's northern half.
Johan Peter Koch's 1911 map of NE Greenland showing Crown Prince Christian Land.

References
  1. "Antarctic Bay". GeoHack. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
  2. Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland. Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.
  3. Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 128.
  4. "The Kilen Expedition 1985" (PDF). 2dgf.dk. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark. June 3, 1993.


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