Dickson Fjord is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively, it lies in the Northeast Greenland National Park area. This fjord is part of the King Oscar Fjord system. This fjord was first surveyed in 1899 by Swedish Arctic explorer Alfred Gabriel Nathorst during the Swedish Greenland Expedition in search of survivors of S. A. Andrée'…
Dickson Fjord is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively, it lies in the Northeast Greenland National Park area. This fjord is part of the King Oscar Fjord system. This fjord was first surveyed in 1899 by Swedish Arctic explorer Alfred Gabriel Nathorst during the Swedish Greenland Expedition in search of survivors of S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897. Nathorst named it after Swedish politician Robert Dickson, one of the financial backers of the venture.
Location: Arctic
Ocean/sea sources: Kempe Fjord · King Oscar Fjord · Davy Sound · Greenland Sea
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