Timmiarmiut Fjord

Timmiarmiut Fjord
Timmiarmiit Kangertivat
Location
Location Arctic
Coordinates 62°39′N 42°42′W / 62.650°N 42.700°W / 62.650; -42.700Coordinates: 62°39′N 42°42′W / 62.650°N 42.700°W / 62.650; -42.700
Ocean/sea sources North Atlantic Ocean
Basin countries Greenland
Max. length 50 km
Max. width 5 km
Surface area SE Greenland

Timmiarmiut Fjord (old spelling 'Tingmiarmiut Fjord'; Greenlandic: Timmiarmiit Kangertivat)[1]) is a fjord of the King Frederick VI Coast in the Sermersooq municipality, southeastern Greenland.

Geography

Timmiarmiut Fjord is located north of Sikuijivitteq (Mogens Heinesen Fjord); to the east it opens into the North Atlantic Ocean with Aaluik, a 220 m high island by the shore of the large Timmiarmiit island, off the northern side of its mouth. On the southern side of its mouth lies the island of Immikkoortukajik and further east at the entrance 643 m high Uttorsiutit Island.[2]

The inner part of Timmiarmiut Fjord is a fjord system with an pattern of large tributary fjords branching to the north, the main ones being the Hanseraq Fjord and the Ernineq Fjord.[2] These fjord branches are often blocked by ice floes discharged from the active glaciers at the head,[3] among which the Heimdal Glacier deserves mention. The Garm glacier in the north has two branches near its terminus, one flowing southwards into the Ernineq Fjord of the Timmiarmiut fjord system and the other eastwards into the Sikuijuitsoq, a branch of the Sehested Fjord (Uummannap Kangertiva) located north of the Timmiarmiut fjord system.[4]

Mountains

The Snehatten,[2] a 1,892.19 m (6,208.0 ft) high prominent peak, rises above the northern shore of the inner part of the fjord at 62°44′29″N 42°51′12″W / 62.74139°N 42.85333°W / 62.74139; -42.85333.[5]

'Tingmiarmiut' Fjord in a 1944 map of the area around Skjoldungen.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Den grønlandske Lods - Geodatastyrelsen
  2. 1 2 3 "Timmiarmiut Fjord". Mapcarta. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  3. ↑ Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 101
  4. ↑ "Garm". Mapcarta. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
  5. ↑ GoogleEarth
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