Kangerluk Fjord
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 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.Mountains
Kangerluk is a short fjord. Several glaciers discharge into the fjord from the Graah Mountains rising to the west and displaying purple and blue strata.
Kangerluk extends in a roughly northwest–southeast direction for between Kangerluluk Fjord to the north and Iluileq Fjord to the south. To the southeast the fjord opens into the North Atlantic Ocean NW of Cape Discord and the island of Iluileq.
