Kejser Franz Joseph Fjord

73.367863888889 - 23.617611111111Koordinaten: 73 ° 22 '4 " N, 23 ° 37 ' 3" W

The Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord is a much branched bay on the east coast of Greenland.

The fjord is located north of Ymer Island and south of Cape Franklin at the Gauss Peninsula at about 73 ° 16 ' N. lat. It is from the mouth to the north outgoing Nordfjord average of 22 km wide. Beyond this junction, an arm moves to the west, then southwest on Andrée - country over. The water depth in the middle of the arm is about 970 m.

In addition to the Walter Hausen Glacier at the end of Nordfjord, the glacier tongue extends down to 300 m above sea level with a thickness of 90 m, show inward to numerous steep glaciers, where the icebergs, with those of the fjord is filled replace, . To the southwest to rise the payer peak with 2,100 m and the Petermann Peak to about 2,650 m above sea level. To the east is the Suess- country and then the Ella Island.

From there to the southeast of the Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord is with the King Oscar Fjord and through this with two arms of this fjord again with the Greenland Sea in connection.

The Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord was discovered in 1870 by the Second German North Polar Expedition led by Carl Koldewey and 1899 explored by Alfred Gabriel Nathorst on the Antarctic further discovered also the King Oscar Fjord.

• Fjord in Greenland
• Bay ( Greenland )
• Northeast Greenland National Park