| Hayes Glacier | |
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| Hayes Gletscher | |
  Location within Greenland | |
| Location | Melville Bay, Greenland |
| Coordinates | 74°57′N57°5′W / 74.950°N 57.083°W Coordinates: 74°57′N57°5′W / 74.950°N 57.083°W |
| Terminus | Melville Bay |
Hayes Glacier is a tidewater glacier in the Avannaata municipality, located on the northwestern shore of Greenland.
It drains the Greenland ice sheet (Greenlandic : Sermersuaq) southwards into Melville Bay. [1] The glacier front is located to the east of the Tuttulikassak nunatak and south of the Kjer Glacier. [2]
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Greenland is located between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Canada and northwest of Iceland. The territory comprises the island of Greenland—the largest island in the world—and more than a hundred other smaller islands. As an island, Greenland has no land boundaries and 44,087 km of coastline. A sparse population is confined to small settlements along certain sectors of the coast. Greenland possesses the world's second largest ice sheet.
The Greenland ice sheet is a vast body of ice covering 1,710,000 square kilometres (660,000 sq mi), roughly near 80% of the surface of Greenland.
Glacier ice accumulation occurs through accumulation of snow and other frozen precipitation, as well as through other means including rime ice, avalanching from hanging glaciers on cliffs and mountainsides above, and re-freezing of glacier meltwater as superimposed ice. Accumulation is one element in the glacier mass balance formula, with ablation counteracting. With successive years in which accumulation exceeds ablation, then a glacier will experience positive mass balance, and its terminus will advance.
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