The fjords of the East Coast
- Scoresby Sund Bay, home to the small airport at Constable Point (CNP).
- Nansen Fjord offers superb hiking trails and a gigantic glacier that flows into the sea and produces enormous icebergs.
- Kangerlugssuaq Fjord is one of the wildest on the east coast due to its remoteness and the absence of any villages, apart from a fishing and hunting village that was abandoned 50 years ago and is now a historical curiosity. The bottom of this fjord is also occupied by one of the largest glaciers on the east coast, flowing directly from the ice cap. Outings here tend to take place on grassy or dry rocky terrain and sheep-covered slabs.
- Kangertiviagssaq Fjord and the Mythic Mountains cirque with the France Glacier, explored by Commander Charcot in the 1930s, at the bottom. This fjord offers sumptuous hikes on dry and glacial terrain interspersed with lakes and glaciers plunging into the sea.
- The Sermilik Fjord with all its ramifications; this area offers the possibility of visiting small fishing villages such as Tiniteqilak. Tassilak is the main town at the entrance to this fjord, and Kulusuk is a small island with a village and a small local airport.
- Louise Boyd was the first white explorer to survey the Arctic territories aboard a ship. Between 1926 and 1941, she organized seven expeditions there, including one where she spent much of the summer exploring and mapping the fjords north of Scoresby Sund. We had access to some of these maps, but we did not have the opportunity to talk to any navigators who had explored these areas. This made us want to steer the bow of KAMAK towards these mountainous territories.
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