page_title: Umivik Bay
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Umivik Bay / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Afrikaans: Die blou stippellyn is die skip Jason se vaart van Ysland na Sermilik-fjord, die soliede blou lyn is die vaart wat Nansen en sy reisgenote in twee klein skepe gemaak het om die kus te bereik. Die rooi lyn is die beplande reis van Sermilik in ’n noordwestelike rigting na Christianshåb. Die groen lyn is die werklike reis oor Groenland van Umivik-fjord na Godthåb.
context_page_description: Umivik Bay, also known as Umiivik and Umerik, is a bay in King Frederick VI Coast, southeastern Greenland. It is part of the Sermersooq municipality.
  Unlike the jagged and forbidding appearance of most fjord systems in East Greenland, the Umivik area has a relatively gentle shape. Here the massive Greenland ice sheet comes down to the shore in smooth, even undulations and the landscape looks unbroken, with only few glimpses of bare rock. Owing to this smoothness, Umivik Bay was chosen as launching point for westward overland crossings, including the pioneering 1888 Greenland venture by Fridtjof Nansen.
context_section_description: Umivik Bay is located between the Fridtjof Nansen Peninsula to the north and the Odinland Peninsula to the south. It includes a sound and a fjord and has a few large islands, the largest of which is Upernattivik (Upernarsuak) lying squarely in the middle of the inner part of the bay. Other significant islands in the bay are Treflodigheden, Terne Island and Tre Lover in the inner bay, as well as Pikiitsi further east off the shore. The innermost part of the bay, by the terminus of the glaciers is known as Qíngua.
  The northern side of the bay includes three sounds, the Dietrichson Sound between Treflodigheden and the mainland, the Torsukattak Sound between Upernattivik and the mainland —both about 800 metres (2,625 feet) wide, and the Sverdrup Sound between both islands. At the bay's northeastern end there is the small Jensen Bay, as well as numerous islets and rocks with intricate channels.
  Umiiviip Kangertiva (Gyldenløve Fjord), was named after Hans Ulrik Gyldenløve by Lieutenant W. A. Graah in 1829. It is located on the southern side of the bay, between Upernattivik and the mainland shore; Vikingevig is a small bay in the fjord, in the northern shore of Odinland. 
  Umivik Bay's mouth is located between Cape Colberger Helde and Cape Lovelorn in the Denmark Strait area of the Atlantic Ocean.
caption: Nansen's 1888 route across Greenland showing Sermilik and Umivik in the east coast.
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