Jøkel Bay

Jøkel Bay
Jøkelbugten
Jøkel Bay
Location in Greenland
LocationArctic
Coordinates78°25′N 20°20′W / 78.417°N 20.333°W / 78.417; -20.333
Ocean/sea sourcesGreenland Sea
Basin countriesGreenland
Max. length140 km (87 mi)
Max. width40 km (25 mi)
FrozenAll year round
Settlements0

Jøkel Bay (Danish: Jøkelbugten) is a large bay in North Eastern Greenland. The area of the bay is uninhabited. Administratively Jøkel Bay and its surroundings belong to the Northeast Greenland National Park.

The bay was named after an old Norse word for glacier —Icelandic: Jökull— by the ill-fated Denmark expedition.

Jøkel Bay is clogged by fast ice the year round.