Olrik Fjord (; ) is a fjord in the Avannaata municipality, Northwestern Greenland. To the east the fjord opens into the Hvalsund, at the end of the Inglefield Gulf of the Baffin Bay.GoogleEarth
This fjord was named by Robert Peary after Christian Søren Marcus Olrik, Royal Inspector of North Greenland.Robert Neff Keely, Gwilym George Davis, In Arctic Seas: the Voyage of the Kite with the Peary Expedition, 2011 p. 373
Geography Olrik Fjord runs in a roughly east–west direction with its mouth west of Kangeq, in the southern shore of the mouth of the Inglefield Gulf, where the latter becomes the Hvalsund. It is a long and narrow fjord, having a shape uncommon in NW Greenland. In the area near its mouth the fjord's southern shore is fringed by up to high cliffs displaying multicolored strata.Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 88
The Marie Glacier, an offshoot of the Leidy Glacier, discharges at the head of the Olrik Fjord, not far from the head of the Academy Fjord.Greenland’s Leidy Glacier; NASA Earth Observatory
Bibliography Daniel D. Roby, Henning Thing and Karen L. Brink, History, Status, and Taxonomic Identity of Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in Northwest Greenland. Arctic Vol. 37, No. 1 (Mar., 1984), pp. 23-30 Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin 174, 1997, p. 120 - GEUS See also List of fjords of Greenland Arctic desert
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External links Arctic desert, Olrik Fjord, Northern Greenland Some examples of dated musk-ox Ovibos moschatus finds from the Olrik Fjord area in the Thule region