Hurlbut Glacier

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Hurlbut Glacier
Hurlbut Gletscher
Hurlbut Bræ
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Location within Greenland
Type Ice cap
Location Greenland
Coordinates 77°22′N66°58′W / 77.367°N 66.967°W / 77.367; -66.967
Area188 km2 (73 sq mi)
Thickness400 m (1,300 ft)
Terminus Inglefield Fjord
Baffin Bay
StatusRetreating [1]

Hurlbut Glacier (Danish : Hurlbut 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 George Hurlbut (1830 – 1908), secretary and librarian of the American Geographical Society. [3]

Geography

The Hurlbut Glacier is an ice cap located between Olrik Fjord and Inglefield Fjord with an outlet that flows roughly from south to north. The outlet has its terminus in the southern shore of the mid Inglefield Fjord. [2] In recent times it has retreated by less than 5 m (16 ft) per year. [1]

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 Studies of four glaciers in Greenland
  2. 1 2 "Hurlbut Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
  3. ↑ Josephine Diebitsch Peary, Robert Edwin Peary, My Arctic Journal: A Year Among Ice-Fields and Eskimos, p. 144
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