page_title: Bernstorff Fjord
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Bernstorff Fjord / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of the area around Skjoldungen Island, Eastern Greenland
context_page_description: Bernstorff Fjord is a fjord in King Frederick VI Coast, eastern Greenland.
  Administratively it is part of the Sermersooq municipality. The fjord was named after Danish statesman Andreas Peter Bernstorff. This fjord is almost always blocked by heavy ice.
context_section_description: To the east the Bernstorff Fjord opens into the Irminger Sea (North Atlantic Ocean). It separates the Odinland Peninsula with its SE end, Cape Møsting to the north, from the Thorland Peninsula and Cape Moltke to the south of the fjord. A single island, Ensomheden, is located within the fjord about 33 kilometres (21 miles) from its mouth. Cape Mosting is the headland on the northern side.
  The Storebjorn, Bernstorff, Fimbul and Sleipner glaciers at the head of this fjord produce massive amounts of ice. The Ydun Glacier, Gerd Glacier and Gymer Glacier are smaller glaciers flowing from Odinland into the northern shore of Bernstorff Fjord. The constant glacier activity produces a powerful current streaming out of the fjord which, together with the numerous ice floes, makes navigation hazardous in the area between its mouth and Umivik Bay.
caption: 1944 map of the area around Skjoldungen.
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