MacCormick Fjord

MacCormick Fjord (Greenlandic: Iterlassuaq) is a fjord in northern Greenland. To the southwest, the fjord opens into the Murchison Sound of the Baffin Bay.^[1]

MacCormick Fjord
Iterlassuaq (Greenlandic)
MacCormick Fjord Location in Greenland
Location	Arctic
Coordinates	77°40′N 70°0′W
Ocean/sea sources	Murchison Sound Baffin Bay
Basin countries	Greenland
Max. length	30 km (19 mi)
Max. width	8 km (5.0 mi)

History

In 1891 a spot in the southern shore near the mouth of the fjord was chosen as a place for the recovery of Robert Peary during his Second Greenland Expedition. A house was built and the site was named "Red Cliff".^[2]

Geography

MacCormick Fjord, together with Robertson Fjord close to the west, is one of the two main indentations of the northern side of the Murchison Sound. It runs in a roughly NE/SW direction east of Cape Robertson, with its mouth north of Cape Cleveland, beyond the western end of the Inglefield Gulf.^[3] Piulip Nunaa is the peninsula that separates this fjord from Bowdoin Fjord to the east and MacCormick Fjord forms the peninsula's western coastline. Most of the fjord's shores are beach.^[4]

The Sun Glacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet at the head of the MacCormick Fjord and its terminus is a 30 m (98 ft) high wall; the smaller Scarlet Heart Glacier has its terminus on the eastern shore of the inner fjord, about 20 km (12 mi) from its mouth.^[5]

Map of Northwestern Greenland

19th century map of the Inglefield Gulf.

See also

• List of fjords of Greenland