page_title: Nordvestfjord
section_title: Glaciers, fjords and bays
hierarchical_section_title: Nordvestfjord / Geography / Glaciers, fjords and bays
caption_attribution_description: Glacier flowing down the side of Nordvestfjord (Scoresby Sund), Greenland
context_page_description: Nordvestfjord, meaning 'Northwest Fjord', is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland.
  Administratively most of its length lies in the Northeast Greenland National Park area, at the border of Sermersooq municipality. This fjord is part of the Scoresby Sound system. The distance from the head of Nordvestfjord across Hall Bredning to the mouth of Scoresby Sound is 313 km, which makes this continuous stretch of water the longest fjord in the world.
context_section_description: From head to mouth:
  Daugaard-Jensen Glacier
  Fjord branch on the left bank
  F. Graae Glacier (Nord Glacier)
  Charcot Glacier
  Hammerskjøld Glacier, Leicester Bay on the right bank
  Flyver Fjord, in the area of Leeds Bay and Lancaster Bay on the right bank
  Edvard Bay on the right bank
  Unnamed glacier on the right bank
  North Bay (Nordbugten) on the left bank
  Unnamed glacier on the left bank
  Snyder Bay on the left bank
  Borgbjerg Glacier with Bacchus Glacier
  Triton Glacier and Neptunus Glacier (Løberengletscher) on the left bank
  Oxford Glacier on the left bank
caption: Mountainside glacier tongue above the Nordvestfjord shore.
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