Kangerluk, also known as Kangerluluarak, is a fjord in the King Frederick VI Coast, Kujalleq municipality, southern Greenland.
History In Kangerluk there is a small cove at a place named Saqqap Nuua (Serkertnua) where Lieutenant Wilhelm August Graah was detained seventeen days in 1829 during his East Coast expedition owing to the difficult ice and weather conditions to the north.W. A. Graah, Narrative of an Expedition to the East Coast of Greenland, London, 1837 p. 72 Mountains Kangerluk is a short fjord. Several glaciers discharge into the fjord from the Graah Mountains (Graah Fjelde) rising to the west and displaying purple and blue strata.Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 100
Kangerluk extends in a roughly northwest–southeast direction for between Kangerluluk Fjord to the north and Iluileq Fjord (Danell Fjord) to the south. To the southeast the fjord opens into the North Atlantic Ocean NW of Cape Discord and the island of Iluileq.
See also List of fjords of Greenland Syenite
References
External links Shallow-water, eruption-fed, mafic pyroclastic deposits along a Paleoproterozoic coastline: Kangerluluk volcano-sedimentary sequence, southeast Greenland; Precambrian Research, Volume 101, Issues 2–4, June 2000, Pages 163–192