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A small wintering station was built in 1934 on the east side of Fleming Fjord near Cape Brown at the mouth of the Vimmelskaftet Valley during the time of the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland.
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On most stretches of the shore mountains rise very steeply on both sides of the fjord culminating in sharp peaks. Most years the fjord is blocked with ice even in the summer.
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The vertebrate-bearing Late Triassic Fleming Fjord Formation of central East Greenland revisited: Stratigraphy, palaeoclimate and new palaeontological data.
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A Norwegian hunting hut was built in 1954 on the north side of the fjord 10 km (6.2 mi) SW of Kap Biot, at the time of
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Sauropodomorph dinosaur trackways from the Fleming Fjord Formation of East Greenland: Evidence for Late Triassic sauropods
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Jens N. Lallensack, Hendrik Klein, Jesper Milàn, Oliver Wings, Octávio Mateus, and Lars B. Clemmensen.
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After more than a century, this fjord was finally properly explored and mapped by Danish
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The Late Triassic Tetrapod Fauna of the Fleming Fjord Formation, East Greenland
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Simplified geologic map of Central Fjord region of East Greenland
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Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute
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Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland,
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Fleming Fjord is located in Greenland
Arctic
71°45′N 22°49′W / 71.750°N 22.817°W / 71.750; -22.817
Greenland Sea
Basin
Greenland
fjord
King Christian X Land
Greenland
Sermersooq
explorer
William Scoresby
John Fleming
Hall Bredning
Arctic explorer
Georg Carl Amdrup
Three-year Expedition to East Greenland
Hermann Andresen
Otto Lapstun
Davy Sound
Jameson Land
Northeast Greenland National Park
Cape Biot
Wegener Peninsula
Cape Brown
Nathorst Fjord

Fleming Fjord Formation
List of fjords of Greenland
Jens N. Lallensack, Hendrik Klein, Jesper Milàn, Oliver Wings, Octávio Mateus, and Lars B. Clemmensen. Sauropodomorph dinosaur trackways from the Fleming Fjord Formation of East Greenland: Evidence for Late Triassic sauropods, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 62 (4), 2017: 833-843

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