Frigg Fjord
| Frigg Fjord | |
|---|---|
  Frigg Fjord Location in Greenland | |
| Location | Arctic |
| Coordinates | 83°7′N 33°0′W / 83.117°N 33.000°WCoordinates: 83°7′N 33°0′W / 83.117°N 33.000°W |
| Ocean/sea sources | Frederick E. Hyde Fjord Wandel Sea |
| Basin countries | Greenland |
| Max. length | 19 km (12 mi) |
| Max. width | 7 km (4.3 mi) |
| Settlements | None |
Frigg Fjord (Danish: Friggs Fjord) is a fjord in Peary Land, far northern Greenland.[1]
The archaeological remains in the northern shore and at the head of this fjord belong to the northernmost human settlements in human history.[2]
History[]
The area around the shores of Frigg Fjord was inhabited by the Independence I culture and later the Independence II culture until about 2,400 years ago. These inhabitants were people dependent on hunting muskoxen for survival and they lived a great part of the year in complete darkness. The ruins were found in the first half of the 20th century. The main sites are the Adam C. Knuth site, Qissivik and the Whale Terraces.[2]
Since all other fjords in Northern Peary Land are frozen even in the summer, Frigg Fjord was identified as one of the few places where a seaplane can land in the northern part of Peary Land by the members of a 1953 geological expedition. After landing successfully with their plane in the unfrozen surface of the head of the fjord they made a south–north crossing of the Roosevelt Range through the pass to Sands Fjord.[3]
Geography[]
Frigg Fjord is an offshoot on the northern shore of Frederick E. Hyde Fjord located 95 km (59 mi) from the mouth.[4] The fjord is roughly oriented in a NW/SE direction. There are two small islands near the head and there is no glacier discharging in the fjord. Unusually for the latitude, the head area of Frigg Fjord is not frozen in the summer. When Lauge Koch saw this area from the air in 1938, he named it Drivhuset, meaning greenhouse.[3]
 Map of Northern Ellesmere Island and far Northern Greenland. |
Bibliography[]
- Bjarne Grønnow; Jens Fog Jensen. The Northernmost Ruins of the Globe. Man and Society. Vol. 29. ISBN 87-90369-65-3.
- H.P. Trettin (ed.), Geology of the Innuitian Orogen and Arctic Platform of Canada and Greenland. Geological Survey of Canada (1991) ISBN 978-0660131313
See also[]
- List of fjords of Greenland
- Northernmost settlements
References[]
- ^ "Frigg Fjord". Mapcarta. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
- ^ a b Bjarne Grønnow, Jens Fog Jensen: The Northernmost Ruins of the Globe. Eigil Knuth’s Archaeological Investigations in Peary Land and Adjacent Areas of High Arctic Greenland (= Man & Society. Vol. 29). Museum Tusculanums Forlag, Københavns Universitet, Copenhagen 2003, ISBN 978-87-635-3065-1, 978-8763512626 pp. 219–237
- ^ a b Crossing North Peary Land in Summer 1953
- ^ Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 130
External links[]
- Fjords of Greenland
- Greenland fjord stubs