Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord
Coordinates: 73 ° 22 ′ 4 " N , 23 ° 37 ′ 3" W.
The Kaiser-Franz-Joseph-Fjord ( Danish Kejser Franz Joseph Fjord ) is a branched bay on the east coast of Greenland .
The fjord is north of Ymer Island and south of Cape Franklin on the Gauss Peninsula at about 73 ° 16 ' north latitude . It is on average 22 km wide from the mouth to the northward branching Nordfjord. Beyond this junction, an arm goes west, then south-west. The water depth in the middle of the arm is about 970 m.
Apart from the Waltershausen Glacier at the end of the Nordfjord, whose glacier tongue reaches down to 300 m above sea level with a thickness of 90 m, there are too numerous steeply sloping glaciers inward , from which the icebergs with which the fjord is filled are detached . To the southwest, the Payerspitze rises to 2320 m and the Petermannspitze to about 2970 m. To the east of this you can see the Suess-Land and then the Ella Island .
From there to the southeast, the Kaiser-Franz-Joseph-Fjord is connected to the König-Oskar-Fjord and through this with two arms of this fjord again with the Greenland Sea .
The Kaiser-Franz-Joseph-Fjord was discovered in 1870 by the Second German North Polar Expedition led by Carl Koldewey and further explored in 1899 by Alfred Gabriel Nathorst in the Antarctic , who also discovered the König-Oskar-Fjord.
