Conger Sound (), also known as Conger Inlet, is a fjord in Peary Land, far northern Greenland.Google MapsNunat Aqqi; Stednavne
The sound was first put on the map at the time of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition led by Adolphus Greely. It was named after U.S. Senator Omar D. Conger, a sponsor of the venture.
Geography Conger Sound is a marine channel with a fjord structure, It is part of the Weyprecht Fjord system, extending for over in a roughly north / south direction to the east of Lockwood Island and west of Roosevelt Land.
It opens to the frozen Lincoln Sea in the north, between Cape Kane in the east and Cape Christiansen in the west. To the south it opens to the inner section of Weyprecht Fjord.Geographical Items on North Greenland - Encyclopedia Arctica 14Sailing Directions for the East Coast of Greenland. United States Hydrographic Office, p. 267
See also List of fjords of Greenland
References
External links North Greenland Glacier Velocities and Calf Ice Production - Polarforschung 60 (1): 1-23, 1990