Knud Rasmussen described the fjord entrance in the following terms: We passed Bessel Fjord in a fresh breeze, and the peculiar indentation, surrounded on all sides by steep mountains intersected by hanging tongues of ice, looked eerie and desolate.

[2]Bessel Fjord stretches roughly from north to south for about 60 km.

It is a long and narrow fjord lined with high mountains rising steeply from the shore.

Hannah Island, a small island, lies in the area of its mouth by the Kennedy Channel, Cape Bryan is on the western side of the mouth and Cape Maynard on the northeastern.

There are large ice caps on both landmasses flanking the fjord.