Sands Fjord is a fjord in Peary Land, northern Greenland. To the north, the fjord opens into the Lincoln Sea of the Arctic Ocean. Administratively, it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park.
The fjord was named by Robert Peary in honor of H. Hayden Sands, one of his sponsors and a member of the Peary Arctic Club.Bjarne Grønnow & Jens Fog JensenThe Northernmost Ruins of the Globe: Eigil Knuth's Archaeological Investigations in Peary Land and Adjacent Areas of High Arctic Greenland, p. 222
Geography Sands Fjord opens to the north about to the WSW of Cape Morris Jesup and about to the east of Benedict Fjord. The fjord is limited by Gertrud Rask Land on its western side. It stretches in a roughly south–north direction for about with its mouth opening to the Lincoln sea.GoogleEarth
Cape Hans Egede is the headland on the western side of the mouth of Sands Fjord. The fjord is flanked by mountains on both sides, reaching a height of . The MacMillan Glacier discharges at its head.Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 96 Helvetia Tinde, the highest mountain of the Roosevelt Range, rises about SSW of the head of the fjord.
See also List of fjords of Greenland Peary Land
References
External links Crossing North Peary Land in Summer 1953