One of my favourite books is "Arctic Riiera" by Ernst Hofer -- a loving portrayal of NE Greeland published in 1957. Here are three of the images......
The image above shows the outer part of Nordvestfjord, looking westwards. In 1962 we stood on these rocks assessing the chances of crossing the fjord with our flimsy kayaks to work on the glacier on the far shore. We decided that the risks were too great, on a fjord of this size (10 km wide), and decided instead to paddle up the fjord to the outlet of the Oxford Gletscher.
Low-level aerial photo of the Bear Islands. Note the moraine looping across the island in the foreground. This will have been formed during one of the retreat / readvance stages following the end of the last glaciation.
Flyver Fjord, one of the arms of Nordvestfjord which is unusual in that it has no large glacier of its own. Nonetheless, it is very deep, and it's become famous as a "graveyard" of vast icebergs which are carried in by tides and winds.
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