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Jokel Bay (Danish: Jøkelbugten) is a large bay in North Eastern Greenland.[1] The area of the bay is uninhabited. Administratively Jokel Bay and its surroundings belong to the Northeast Greenland National Park.

Jokel Bay
Jøkelbugten
Jokel Bay Location in Greenland
Location	Arctic
Coordinates	78°25′N 20°20′W
Ocean/sea sources	Greenland Sea
Basin countries	Greenland
Max. length	140 km (87 mi)
Max. width	40 km (25 mi)
Frozen	All year round
Settlements	0

The bay was named after an old Norse word for glacier —Icelandic: Jökull— by the ill-fated Denmark expedition.[2]

Jokel Bay is clogged by fast ice the year round.

Geography

Jokel Bay stretches for about 140 kilometers from north to south in the King Frederick VIII Land shore.

Lambert Land and Schnauder Island lie at the northern end by the Zachariae Isstrom glacier, while Duke of Orleans Land and Gamma Island are at the southern end. All along the shore of the bay the Greenland ice sheet reaches down to the sea between skerries and the coast is broken down into two alignments of small islands.[3]

The Pic de Gerlache, an important landmark for the first explorers of the area, rises from a nunatak a few kilometers inland in the central zone of the bay.[1]

References

External links

• A. Trolle, The Danish North-East Greenland Expedition, The Geographical Journal Vol. 33, No. 1 (Jan., 1909), pp. 40-43+45-47+49+51-53+55-57+59-61

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