Torsukattak Fjord (Disko Bay) south of Qeqertakavsak. Torsukattak Fjord (Disko Bay) Torsukattak is a fjord in western Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Qaasuitsup municipality. Torsukattak Fjord is located to the east of Disko Island (Qeqertarsuaq), across the sound. The fjord is oriented in a roughly east/west direction and opens into the Disko Bay of the Baffin Bay. It has a large glacier and a nunatak at its head. The 520 m high island of Oqaatsoq is on the southern side of the mouth and Qeqertakavsak lies on the southern shore of the fjord 23 km from its mouth. There are several smaller
Baffin Bay Merchants of London, Discoverers of the North-West Passage". Their governor Thomas Smythe organized five expeditions to explore the northern coasts of Canada in search of a maritime passage to the Far East. Henry Hudson and Thomas Button's explored Hudson Bay, William Gibbons Labrador, and Robert Bylot Hudson Strait and the area which became known as Baffin's Bay after his pilot William Baffin. Aboard the "Discovery", Baffin charted the area and named Lancaster, Smith, and Jones Sounds after members of his company. By the completion of his 1616 voyage, Baffin held out no hope of an ice-free passage and the area