{{Short description|Land-locked freshwater fjord in Greenland}} {{Infobox body of water | name= Romer Lake | native_name= | other_name= ''Romer Sø'' | image = Romer lake 2018-08-29-23 59 Sentinel-2 L1C.jpg | caption = Romer Lake Sentinel-2 image | pushpin_map = Greenland | pushpin_map_caption = Location in Greenland | location= NE Greenland | coords= {{coord|81|0|N|19|5|W|region:GL_type:waterbody_source:GNS-enwiki|display=inline, title}} | type =Fjord | inflow = | outflow = Nunataami Elv | oceans= Ingolf Sound,<br>Greenland Sea | countries= Greenland, Denmark | length={{convert|60|km|abbr=on}} | width={{convert|6|km|abbr=on}} | area={{convert|225|sqkm|abbr=on}} | depth= | settlements= }} '''Romer Lake''' ({{langx|da|Romer Sø}}) is a land-locked freshwater fjord at the northern end of King Frederick VIII Land, near Greenland's northeastern coast.<ref name="GE"/> The Danish military base/weather station Nord —the only inhabited place in the area— lies {{convert|50|km|abbr=on}} to the northeast. The lake and its surroundings are part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.

Romer Lake was first mapped in 1933 by Lauge Koch during aerial surveys made during the 1931–34 Three-year Expedition to East Greenland ''(Treårsekspeditionen)''. It was likely named after the Danish Astronomer/Inventor Ole Rømer (1644–1710).<ref name="cat">{{cite web | title = Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland | publisher = Geological Survey of Denmark | url = http://www.geus.dk/publications/bull/nr21/nr21_p117-368.pdf3 | accessdate = 17 June 2016}}</ref>

==Geography== Romer Lake is located at the western end of the Crown Prince Christian Land peninsula to the west of the Princess Elizabeth Alps. It lies in long and narrow depression running parallel to the Denmark Fjord system further north and stretching roughly from NE to SW for about {{convert|80|km|abbr=on}}. A glacier has its terminus at the northern end and the Nunataami Elv river valley flows out of the southern end of the lake and, bending south through the valley known as ''Vandredalen'',<ref name="cat"/> it discharges its waters in the northern inner arm of the Ingolf Sound of the Greenland Sea.<ref name="mapcarta">{{cite web|url=http://mapcarta.com/17866100|title=Romer Sø|work=Mapcarta|accessdate=16 June 2016}}</ref> ===Elephant Foot Glacier=== {{see also|Glaciers on Mars}} Romer Lake is famous for its impressive Elephant Foot Glacier, a wide piedmont glacier with a strikingly-shaped {{convert|5.4|km|mi|0}} wide terminal lobe flowing into the lake from the SE in its central part.<ref name="GE">GoogleEarth</ref><ref>[http://www.amusingplanet.com/2015/11/elephant-foot-glacier.html Elephant Foot Glacier - Amusing Planet]</ref>

{{col-float|width=375px}} [[File:1024 Nordpolausflug- Nordostgrönland-05052012182.jpg|none|thumb|350px|View of the Elephant Foot end moraine at Romer Lake.]] {{col-float-break|width=325px}} [[File:Wikielephantglacier.jpg|none|thumb|300px|NASA picture of the southern part of Romer Lake with the Elephant Foot Glacier.]] {{col-float-end}}

==See also== *List of fjords of Greenland

==References== {{Reflist}} == External links == *{{commonscat inline}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160808104822/http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/263548.pdf Report of environmental operation. Lead Dog 1960 - US Army Transportation Corps] *[http://collections.dartmouth.edu/arctica-beta/html/EA14-11.html Encyclopedia Arctica] Category:Lakes of Greenland Category:Fjords of Greenland

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