Farquhar Glacier

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Farquhar Glacier
Farquhar Gletscher
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Location within Greenland
Type Tidal outlet glacier
Location Greenland
Coordinates 77°41′N66°16′W / 77.683°N 66.267°W / 77.683; -66.267
Width2.5 km (1.6 mi)
Terminus Inglefield Fjord
Baffin Bay
StatusRetreating [1]

Farquhar Glacier (Danish : Farquhar Gletscher), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland. [2] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.

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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]

Geography

The Farquhar Glacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet into the northern side of the head of the Inglefield Fjord just northeast of Josephine Peary Island. Its terminus lies between two nunataks: Mount Lee in the east separates it from the Tracy Glacier to the southeast and Mount Field, a larger nunatak to the west, separates it from the Melville Glacier to the northwest. [2]

Formerly the roughly NE/SW flowing Farquhar Glacier joined with the east/west flowing Tracy Glacier at their terminus. [1] However, these two glaciers lost contact after the terminus disintegrated in 2002. [4]

19th century map of the Inglefield Gulf. Northward over the great ice - a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a description of the little tribe (14779963574).jpg
19th century map of the Inglefield Gulf.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Tracy Gletscher Retreat 1987-2013, Northwest Greenland". From a Glaciers Perspective. 29 July 2013. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Farquhar Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  3. ↑ Robert Neff Keely, Gwilym George Davis, In Arctic Seas: the Voyage of the Kite with the Peary Expedition, 2011 p. 373
  4. ↑ Ice front and flow speed variations of marine-terminating outlet glaciers along the coast of Prudhoe Land, northwestern Greenland
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