The Hekla Sound (Danish: Hekla Sund) is a sound in King Frederick VIII Land, Northeast Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.[1]
| Hekla Sound | |
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| Hekla Sund | |
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  Hekla Sound | |
| Location | NE Greenland |
| Coordinates | 80°12′30″N 19°0′0″W / 80.20833°N 19.00000°W |
| Part of | Arctic Ocean |
| Ocean/sea sources | Greenland Sea |
| Basin countries | Greenland |
| Max. length | 50 km (31 mi) |
| Max. width | 12 km (7.5 mi) |
| Frozen | All year round |
| Settlements | 0 |
History
editThe sound was named by the ill-fated 1906-1908 Denmark expedition after ship Hekla.[2]
Geography
editThe Hekla Sound branches to the NW of the Dijmphna Sound at Cape Marie Dijmphna, separating the shore of Lynn Island from the southwestern shore of Holm Land with the southern end of the Princess Caroline-Mathilde Alps to the north. Further west it bends roughly southward, with Skallingen in the Greenland mainland to the west, joining again with the Dijmphna Sound.[3][4]
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Google Earth
- ^ Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
- ^ Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 128
- ^ "Hekla Sund". GeoHack. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
External links
edit- Properties of the waters sampled in Dijmphna Sound
- Explanatory notes to the Geological map of Greenland
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