Independence Fjord
Independence Fjord or Independence Sound is a large fjord or sound in the eastern part of northern Greenland. It is about 200 km long and up to 30 km wide.
- Type: Bay
- Description: fiord in Greenland
- Also known as: “Independence Fiord” and “Independence Sound”
Independence Fjord
- Categories: fjord and body of water
- Location: Greenland, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
82.08782° or 82° 5′ 16″ north
Longitude
-25.90335° or 25° 54′ 12″ west
Open location code
C9JP33QW+4M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Independence Fjord” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Independentzia fiordoa”
- Catalan: “Fiord Independence”
- Cebuano: “Independence Fjord”
- Chinese: “獨立峽灣”
- Czech: “fjord Nezávislosti”
- Danish: “Independence-fjorden”
- Dutch: “Independencefjord”
- French: “détroit de l’Indépendance”
- French: “fjord de l’Indépendance”
- French: “Fjord de l’Indépendance”
- German: “Independence Fjord”
- Icelandic: “Independence-fjörður”
- Italian: “Independence Fjord”
- Japanese: “インディペンデンス・フィヨルド”
- Latvian: “Independensas fjords”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Independence-fjorden”
- Polish: “Independence Fjord”
- Polish: “Zatoka Niepodległości”
- Russian: “Индепенденс-фьорд”
- Slovenian: “Fjord neodvisnosti*”
- Slovenian: “Independence Fjord”
- Spanish: “Fiordo de la Independencia”
- Swedish: “Independence Fjord”
- Ukrainian: “Індепенденс”
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