De Long Fjord is a fjord system in Peary Land , northern Greenland . To the northwest, the fjord opens into the Lincoln Sea of the Arctic Ocean . It is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park .
15-549: The fjord is named after arctic explorer George W. De Long . De Long Fjord opens to the northwest east of Nansen Land and to the west of Weyprecht Fjord , separated from it by the island of Hazenland . Its mouth is located to the south of the Wild Sound and southeast of Luigi Amadeo Island and Cape Mohn , and south of Hanne Island . The Tjalfe Glacier discharges ice from the Hans Tausen Ice Cap at its head. Although
30-555: A few months later and found the bodies of De Long and his boat crew. Overall, the doomed voyage took the lives of 20 expedition members, as well as additional men lost during the search operations. De Long's death – and that of the other men – was assumed to have occurred at or about the end of October. By direction of the United States government, the remains of De Long and his companions were brought home and interred with honour in his native city. In 1890,
45-682: The De ;Long Islands , the De Long Mountains in northwest Alaska , and the De Long Fjord in Greenland bear his name. Severn River (Maryland) The Severn River is a tidal estuary 14 miles (23 km) long, located in Anne Arundel County in the U.S. state of Maryland , south of the Magothy River and north of the South River . The Severn has a watershed area (including
60-644: The North Pole via the Bering Strait . As well as collecting scientific data and animal specimens, De Long discovered three islands and claimed them for the United States in the summer of 1881. The government did not endorse this claim, and the islands are under Russian jurisdiction. The ship became trapped in the ice pack in the Chukchi Sea northeast of Wrangel Island in September ;1879. It drifted in
75-460: The Severn River Bridge or Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge, carries US 50 / US 301 / MD 2 and was first built in 1886. The other carries MD 450 , and is now officially named the " US Naval Academy Bridge " because its south end traverses the academy. The latter bridge was built as a drawbridge in the late 1920s and replaced with the current high span in 1994. A former railroad trestle between
90-466: The ice pack in a northwesterly direction until it was crushed in the shifting ice and sank on June 12, 1881 , in the East Siberian Sea . De Long and his crew then traversed the ice pack to try to reach Siberia pulling three small boats. After reaching open water on September 11 they became separated and one boat, commanded by Executive Officer Charles W. Chipp , was lost; no trace of it
105-508: The islands in the fjord, as well as the peninsula flanking it, are unglaciated, the sea in the area is permanently covered by ice. The De Long Fjord is a fjord system with three branches separated by islands in its outer section: This article about a fjord in Greenland is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . George W. De Long George Washington De Long (August 22, 1844 – c. October 31, 1881 )
120-641: The mouth of the river, the Severn provides an access point to the Chesapeake Bay not just for midshipmen but also for fishermen and pleasure boaters. Several tributary creeks drain highly developed areas, including Weems Creek and its nontidal portion Cowhide Branch, which drain most of the Annapolis Mall and the Anne Arundel Medical Center. The Severn River is crossed by two bridges. One, known as
135-672: The officers and men of the United States Navy dedicated the Jeannette Monument , a granite-and-marble monument designed by George P. Colvocoresses —a cross with carved icicles hanging from it that sits atop a cairn. The 24-foot (7.3 m)-high structure is in the United States Naval Academy Cemetery overlooking the Severn River . His journal, in which he made regular entries up to the day on which he died,
150-507: The two current bridges, built in about 1887 for the Annapolis and Baltimore Short Line Railroad (which became part of the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway ), was removed post-1968 when it was declared unsafe. On the northshore from Annapolis is the communities of St. Margaret's adjacent to the colonial plantation of Whitehall . If a tributary has sub-tributaries (commonly
165-612: The upper, nontidal portion) below, they are listed after the "&". Providence, the first colonial settlement in Anne Arundel County, was founded in the fall and winter of 1649–1650 at the beginning of a mass migration of a group of Puritans and non-conformists from Lower Norfolk County in Virginia to primarily the north side of the mouth of the Severn. It faded away after the 1680s when Annapolis came into favor and, in 1694, became Maryland's capital. This "lost town" of Providence
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#1732869579633180-575: The water surface) of 81 square miles (210 km ), or 69 square miles (180 km ) of land. Thus, its total watershed area is 15% water. Its source is the beginning of the non-tidal nine-mile long Severn Run in northwestern Anne Arundel County in Severn, Maryland. The river enters the Chesapeake Bay near the major port city of Annapolis , also the capital of Maryland. Most famous for the United States Naval Academy campus situated at
195-512: Was a United States Navy officer and explorer who led the ill-fated Jeannette expedition of 1879–1881, in search of the Open Polar Sea . In 1879, backed by James Gordon Bennett Jr. —owner of the New York Herald —and under the auspices of the United States Navy, Lieutenant Commander De Long sailed from San Francisco on the ship USS Jeannette with a plan to find a way to
210-687: Was edited by his wife and published in 1883 under the title Voyage of the "Jeannette" , and an account of the search which was made for him and his comrades by Melville was published a year later under the title of In the Lena Delta . Union veterans in the Kingdom of Hawai‘i on September 23, 1882, named the post of the Grand Army of the Republic there after him. Two United States Navy ships have been named USS DeLong after George W. De Long. In addition to
225-464: Was ever found. De Long's own boat reached land, but only two men sent ahead for aid survived. The third boat, under the command of Chief Engineer George W. Melville , reached the Lena Delta and its crew were rescued. Melville later found and brought to the U.S. the ships log books which now sit in the U.S. National Archives. De Long died of starvation near Matvay Hut, Yakutia . Melville returned
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