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Gåsefjord
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Gaasefjord (; , meaning 'Goose Fjord') is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland. This fjord is part of the Scoresby Sound system. Administratively it lies in the area of Sermersooq municipality.
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Gaasefjord (; , meaning 'Goose Fjord') is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland. This fjord is part of the Scoresby Sound system. Administratively it lies in the area of Sermersooq municipality.
==History== The Gåsefjord was named in 1891 by Carl Ryder during his 1891–92 East Greenland Expedition. It was named after the geese, for the Barnacle goose and the Pink-footed goose are common in the region. Other names given by former surveyors were Sydfjorden, by Ragnvald Knudsen, and Taagefjord by Nikolaj Hartz.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gåsefjord” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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