 To the south the fjord opens into the northern shore of the Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord —about 64 km from the Foster Bay of the Greenland Sea— where it reaches a width of 13.3 km with depths between 18 and 49 m.

The Brogetdalen, known as "multicolored valley" owing to the different colours of the mountains surrounding it, is a large valley in Strindberg Land that drains east to the Nordfjord.A river enters the fjord 16 km north of the entrance through the Muskox Fjord "(Moskusokse Fjord)", a long tributary fjord or arm that enters Nordfjord from its eastern shore close to the head.Cape Ovibos is the headland at the western side of the entrance.