Sands Fjord
Sands Fjord is a fjord in Peary Land, northern Greenland. To the north, the fjord opens into the Lincoln Sea of the Arctic Ocean. Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park.
The fjord was named by Robert Peary in honor of H. Hayden Sands, one of his sponsors and a member of the Peary Arctic Club.Geography
Sands Fjord opens to the north about to the WSW of Cape Morris Jesup and about to the east of Benedict Fjord. It stretches in a roughly south/north direction for about with its mouth opening to the Lincoln sea.
Cape Hans Egede is the headland on the western side of the mouth of Sands Fjord. The fjord is flanked by mountains on both sides, reaching a height of. The MacMillan Glacier discharges at its head. Helvetia Tinde, the highest mountain of the Roosevelt Range, rises about SSW of the head of the fjord.
