Kangerlussuaq Fjord

Kangerlussuaq (Greenland language, dt: long fjord; Danish name: Sondre Strømfjord ) is a fjord in West Greenland, which empties into the Davis Strait. At the end of the fjord, the uninhabited island is Simiutaq. The area of the fjord is one of the Greenland metropoloitan Qeqqata Come Unia, whose office is located in Spring Hill. The 170- km long fjord is navigable for its entire length. The width is between 1.5 and 8 km. From the ice to the Russel glacier pushes towards Kangerlussuaq. Its melting glacier water and the other dining in summer a river, Qinnguata Kuussua (Watson River), its estuary forms the head of the fjord.

The area was originally settled permanently. The earliest human traces are 4000 year old find spots of summer hunting camps of the Saqqaq culture. Today, located at the head of the fjord of the same name with the inlet 550 -strong community Kangerlussuaq, which has a port and an international airport, the Kangerlussuaq airport.

During the Second World War, the Americans occupied Greenland after the occupation of Denmark, belonged to the territory of Greenland, by Nazi Germany. At the top end of the Kanerlussuaq north of estuarine they built the large military airfield Bluie - 8, which is the origin of today's airport Kangerlussuaq with later extensions.

In the area around the fjord extends inland to a tundra vegetation, which also feeds thousands of reindeer and musk oxen. From the head of the fjord, the ice is about 35 km away.

In 2012, the air in the area heated so strongly that the large amount of melt water tore away the bridge over the river to the airport.