page_title: Danmark Fjord
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Danmark Fjord / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of North East Greenland by Johan Peter Koch as surveyed during the Danmark Expedition 1906-1908 Deutsch: Johan Peter Kochs Karte Nordostgrönlands, angefertigt nach der Landvermessung durch die Danmark-Expedition 1906-1908
context_page_description: Danmark Fjord, also known as Denmark Sound, is a fjord in northeast Greenland within Northeast Greenland National Park.
  The fjord was explored and named after the expedition ship Danmark at the time of the ill-fated Denmark expedition 1906-1908 led by Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen which mapped Greenland's northeastern coast between Cape Bridgman and Cape Bismarck.
context_section_description: This fjord, together with Independence Fjord has its mouth in the Wandel Sea, which is part of the Arctic Ocean.
  Three islands are located in the bay at the mouth of the sound, Princess Thyra Island, Princess Margaret Island and Princess Dagmar Island. The area was formerly part of Avannaa, originally Nordgrønland ("North Greenland"), a former county of Greenland until 31 December 2008.
  The Danish military base and weather station Nord is located by the sound on the western side of Crown Prince Christian Land, the peninsula on the eastern side. Mylius-Erichsen Land is the peninsula to the west. Unlike other fjords in the area, there is no large calving glacier at the head of the Danmark Fjord, but it is icebound the whole year round.
caption: 1911 German map of NE Greenland showing the Denmark Fjord.
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