Navarana Fjord

The fjord stretches 40 kilometers in length and 3 kilometers in width, featuring steep cliffs rising to heights of 1300 meters on both sides.

Danish Arctic explorer Eigil Knuth mapped the fjord during the Danish Peary Land Expedition between 1947 and 1950, documenting its geographical features.

The fjord bears the name of Navarana Mequpaluk, the wife of Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen, who passed away before the Fifth Thule Expedition.

Access to the fjord requires specialized transportation arrangements through icebreaker ships or chartered planes due to its remote location within the national park.

The waters contain the exclusive fossil sponge genus Sisamatispongia, discovered in the Paleozoic Franklinian Basin at the northern edge of a Silurian limestone shelf.

Location: Northeast Greenland National Park

GPS coordinates: 82.74000,-42.92400

Latest update: March 3, 2025 11:52