Academy Glacier (NW Greenland)

This article is about the glacier in NW Greenland. For the glacier in Northern Greenland, see Academy Glacier (Greenland). For the glacier in Antarctica, see Academy Glacier.

Academy Glacier
Academy Gletscher
Location within Greenland
Type	Piedmont glacier
Location	Greenland
Coordinates	77°14′N65°26′W / 77.233°N 65.433°W / 77.233; -65.433
Terminus	Leidy Glacier; Academy Fjord Inglefield Fjord

Academy Glacier (Danish : Academy Gletscher) is a glacier in northwestern Greenland. ^[1] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.

The glacier was named by Robert Peary after the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.

Geography

The Academy Glacier is located inland and discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet into the Leidy Glacier, which bifurcates and has its terminus in the Academy Fjord, as well as in the Olrik Fjord as the smaller Marie Glacier. ^{[2] [1]}

Map of Northwestern Greenland

See also

• List of glaciers in Greenland
• Inglefield Fjord

References

1. "Academy Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
2. Greenland’s Leidy Glacier; NASA Earth Observatory

External links

• The recent regimen of the ice cap margin in North Greenland Archived 2021-06-25 at the Wayback Machine