The Scoresby Sound (or Scoresby Sund in Danish, Kangertittivaq in Greenlandic) is the world’s largest fjord system, where the longest part extends 350 km inland.
The name comes from the English explorer William Scoresby who mapped the area in 1822. The names given to the area are usually descriptive – for example, Bjørneøer (bear islands, pictures below) got the name from the fact that a Danish surveyor shot a bear there.
Similarly, Røde fjord gets its name from the red cliffs lining it (below).
There are polar bears (below upper left), musk oxes (below upper middle), rock ptarmigans (below upper right), arctic foxes, snowy owls and other birds (like the grouses on iceberg below) in the area, but overall the conditions are so harsh that only few species survive here.
The rocky and barren scenery is unforgiving, and Greenland basically only knows winters and summers, very little inbetween. Below icebergs at Sydkap, the mouth of the Nordvestfjord.
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