| Farquhar Glacier | |
|---|---|
| Farquhar Gletscher | |
  Location within Greenland | |
| Type | Tidal outlet glacier |
| Location | Greenland |
| Coordinates | 77°41′N66°16′W / 77.683°N 66.267°W Coordinates: 77°41′N66°16′W / 77.683°N 66.267°W |
| Width | 2.5 km (1.6 mi) |
| Terminus | Inglefield Fjord Baffin Bay |
| Status | Retreating [1] |
Farquhar Glacier (Danish : Farquhar Gletscher), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland. [2] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.
Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in Denmark and in the region of Southern Schleswig in northern Germany, where it has minority language status. Also, minor Danish-speaking communities are found in Norway, Sweden, Spain, the United States, Canada, Brazil, and Argentina. Due to immigration and language shift in urban areas, around 15–20% of the population of Greenland speak Danish as their first language.
A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. Glaciers slowly deform and flow due to stresses induced by their weight, creating crevasses, seracs, and other distinguishing features. They also abrade rock and debris from their substrate to create landforms such as cirques and moraines. Glaciers form only on land and are distinct from the much thinner sea ice and lake ice that form on the surface of bodies of water.
Greenland is an autonomous constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe for more than a millennium. The majority of its residents are Inuit, whose ancestors began migrating from the Canadian mainland in the 13th century, gradually settling across the island.
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This glacier was named by Robert Peary after Commodore Farquhar (1840 – 1907), Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks. [3]
Rear Admiral Robert Edwin Peary Sr. was an American explorer and United States Navy officer who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for claiming to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909.
Rear Admiral Norman von Heldreich Farquhar was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. He is best known for commanding a naval squadron which was wrecked with three German warships at Apia, Samoa in 1889.
The Bureau of Yards and Docks was the branch of the United States Navy responsible from 1842 to 1966 for building and maintaining navy yards, drydocks, and other facilities relating to ship construction, maintenance, and repair.
