Godthab Gulf

Godthab Gulf

The Godthab Gulf, also known as the Godthaab Golf, Clavering Fjord, Clavering Sound and Inner Bay is a fjord in East Greenland, the land of King Christian X. It is administratively part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. During the 1929-1930 expedition to East Greenland, Lauge Koch named the bay "Godthaab Golf" after the expedition ship Godthaab, a 287-ton barquentine which was built in 1898 in Sandefjord, Norway, and bought by the Greenland Administration. Godthab Golf is located to the south-west of Clavering Island, to the north of Cape Stosch and the northern shoreline of Hold with Hope. It is only 8 kilometers in width at its entrance, but expands to nearly 20 kilometers at its head.