Bessel Fjord
Bessels Fjord
Bessel Fjord Location
Location	Arctic
Coordinates	80°55′N 63°5′W / 80.917°N 63.083°W / 80.917; -63.083
Ocean/sea sources	Kennedy Channel Nares Strait
Basin countries	Greenland
Max. length	60 km (37 mi)
Max. width	3.5 km (2.2 mi)
Frozen	Most of the year
Settlements	Uninhabited

Bessel Fjord (Danish: Bessels Fjord) is a fjord in northwestern Greenland.^[1] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.

Knud Rasmussen described the fjord entrance in the following terms:

We passed Bessel Fjord in a fresh breeze, and the peculiar indentation, surrounded on all sides by steep mountains intersected by hanging tongues of ice, looked eerie and desolate.^[2]

Geography

Bessel Fjord stretches roughly from north to south for about 60 km. It is a long and narrow fjord lined with high mountains rising steeply from the shore. Hannah Island, a small island, lies in the area of its mouth by the Kennedy Channel, Cape Bryan is on the western side of the mouth and Cape Maynard on the northeastern.^[3]

This fjord is located northeast of Washington Land, at the northern end of Daugaard-Jensen Land. The Petermann Peninsula forms its eastern shore. There are large ice caps on both landmasses flanking the fjord.^[1]