page_title: Kjerulf Fjord
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Kjerulf Fjord / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Greenland’s eastern coast is featured in this true-color Terra MODIS image from August 21, 2003. In the image, snows have yet to cover the coastal lands, and the waters in the fjords show spots of bright turquoise color from sediments deposited there by runoff. In the higher-resolution images, little spots of white in the water seem to be ice originating from the deeper fjords that reach all the way to the icecap covering most of the island.
context_page_description: Kjerulf Fjord is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland.
  The Kjerulf Fjord is part of the Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord system. Administratively it lies in the area of the Northeast Greenland National Park.
context_section_description: This fjord is the innermost tributary of Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord. Its mouth opens to the north on the southern shore of the main fjord, only about 7 km (4.3 mi) east of the terminus of the Nordenskiöld Glacier (Akuliarutsip Sermerssua) at its head. The fjord runs in a roughly north/south direction for over 25 km (16 mi). The fjord separates Goodenoughland in the west from Suess Land in the east.
  Kjerulf Fjord is about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) wide in the mouth area, narrowing to an average of less than 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) in the inner reaches. Ridderborgen (Knight Mountain), a 1,885 m (6,184 ft) high peak topped by a rock pinnacle resembling a ruined castle, rises on the west side of the mouth area of the fjord. The landscape of the inner fjord, with grass-covered slopes and valleys, such as Paradisdal, is more gentle than the shoreline of inner Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord with its forbidding dark cliffs. Kjerulf Fjord has been described as an "iceberg graveyard", for many glaciers originating in the Isfjord to the north, end up stranded here driven by the wind and currents.
  The head is located in the isthmus area of Suess Land, only about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) north of the head of Dickson Fjord. There are mudflats at the head and a few minor glaciers such as the Passage Glacier flow into the fjord and the Hisinger Glacier flows to the south and SW of the mudflats.
caption: East Greenland Terra/MODIS satellite image
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