{{Short description|Fjord in Greenland}} {{Infobox body of water | name= Benedict Fjord | native_name= | other_name= | image = Operational Navigation Chart A-5, 3rd edition.jpg | caption = Map of Northern Ellesmere Island and far Northern Greenland. | pushpin_map = Greenland | pushpin_map_caption = Location in Greenland | location= Arctic | coords= {{coord|83|27|N|36|50|W|region:GL_type:waterbody_source:GNS-enwiki|display=inline, title}} | rivers= | oceans= Lincoln Sea | countries= Greenland | length={{convert|22|km|abbr=on}} | width={{convert|6|km|abbr=on}} | area= | depth= | frozen=All year round | settlements= 0 }} '''Benedict Fjord''' is a fjord in Peary Land, northern Greenland. To the north, the fjord opens into the Lincoln Sea of the Arctic Ocean.
The fjord was named by Robert Peary in honor of New York banker and yachtsman E. C. Benedict, one of the prominent members of the Peary Arctic Club.<ref>Achton Friis et al. ''Im Grönlandeis mit Mylius-Erichsen: Die Danmark-Expedition 1906–1908'', p. 384</ref>
==Geography== Benedict Fjord is located east of Hunt Fjord with its mouth in the Lincoln sea between Cape Washington and Cape Cannon. It opens to the north about {{convert|30|km|abbr=on}} to the west of Sands Fjord.<ref name="mapcarta">{{cite web|url=https://mapcarta.com/19194266|title=Benedict Fjord|work=Mapcarta|accessdate=23 May 2019}}</ref> The fjord stretches in a roughly southeast–northwest direction for about {{convert|20|km|abbr=on}}.<ref name="GE">GoogleEarth</ref>
There are two branches at its head; A. Harmsworth Glacier discharges from the Roosevelt Range on the eastern side of the head of Benedict Fjord, and a smaller branch extends southwards from the western flank of the fjord. The fjord is limited by Gertrud Rask Land on its eastern side and Roosevelt Land in the west.<ref name="prostar">''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute,'' p. 95-96</ref> Both shores of the fjord are largely glaciated.<ref>[https://collections.dartmouth.edu/arctica-beta/html/EA14-13.html Geographical Items on North Greenland Encyclopedia Arctica 14]</ref>
==See also== *List of fjords of Greenland
==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *[https://www.jstor.org/stable/40506675?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Crossing North Peary Land in Summer 1953] Category:Fjords of Greenland Category:Peary Land {{Greenland-geo-stub}}