Bessel Fjord, NW Greenland

Bessel Fjord
Bessels Fjord
Bessel Fjord
Location
LocationArctic
Coordinates80°55′N 63°5′W / 80.917°N 63.083°W / 80.917; -63.083
Ocean/sea sourcesKennedy Channel
Nares Strait
Basin countriesGreenland
Max. length60 km (37 mi)
Max. width3.5 km (2.2 mi)
FrozenMost of the year
SettlementsUninhabited

Bessel Fjord (Danish: Bessels Fjord) is a fjord in northwestern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.

Knud Rasmussen described the fjord entrance in the following terms:

We passed Bessel Fjord in a fresh breeze, and the peculiar indentation, surrounded on all sides by steep mountains intersected by hanging tongues of ice, looked eerie and desolate.