page_title: Olrik Fjord
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Olrik Fjord / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: northwardovergre001pear (find matches) Title: Northward over the great ice&#160;: a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a description of the little tribe of Smith Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the Saviksue or great Cape York meteorites Year: 1898 (1890s) Authors: Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 Subjects: Eskimos Publisher: New York, NY&#160;: F.A. Stokes Company Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: AT THE SNOW VILLAGE. Cape Cleveland, I was again very forcibly impressedwith the great similarity between the northern shoreof Herbert Island and the south-eastern shore ofMcCormick Bay, and the sharply marked differenceof character between Herbert and NorthumberlandIslands, Northumberland is evidently a part of thesame dark granite formation that walls RobertsonBay in towering grandeur, while Herbert Island is apart of the same crumbling, disintegrated sandstoneand drift formation which reaches from Cape Cleve-land to Bowdoin Bay in Murchison Sound. Text Appearing After Image: Around Inglefield Gulf by Sledge 251 At Cape Cleveland we separated, Panikpa with-his equipage keeping along the beaten path whichwound away through the bergs to the deserted igloosof Kiaktoksuami, under the vertical walls of the east-ern end of Herbert Island, while I, with the rest ofthe party, branched out on a new road, an air-linefor the channel between Herbert and Northumber-land Islands. A short distance away from CapeCleveland we encountered disagreeable going in theshape of a broad zone of snow with underlying water,caused, undoubtedly, by the overflow from the tidalcrack stretching from Cape Cleveland in the directionof Cape Robertson. After the first few steps in thefreezing slush, Mrs. Peary, Gibson, and myself slippedon our snow-shoes, and as the sledges easily keptupon the surface of the snow, this threw the bruntof the disagreeable situation upon Kyo and the poordogs, who struggled and floundered through the arcticmorass, until at last we reached dry snow beyond it. Aft Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Olrik Fjord is a fjord in the Avannaata municipality, Northwestern Greenland. To the east the fjord opens into the Hvalsund, at the end of the Inglefield Gulf of the Baffin Bay.
  This fjord was named by Robert Peary after Christian Søren Marcus Olrik, Royal Inspector of North Greenland.
context_section_description: Olrik Fjord runs in a roughly east/west direction with its mouth west of Kangeq, in the southern shore of the mouth of the Inglefield Gulf, where the latter becomes the Hvalsund. It is a long and narrow fjord, having a shape uncommon in NW Greenland. In the area near its mouth the fjord's southern shore is fringed by up to 680 m (2,230 ft) high cliffs displaying multicolored strata.
  The Marie Glacier, an offshoot of the Leidy Glacier, discharges at the head of the Olrik Fjord, not far from the head of the Academy Fjord.
caption: 19th century map of the Inglefield Gulf.
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