Hutchinson Glacier

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Hutchinson Glacier
Hutchinson Gletscher
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Crown Prince Frederick Range map section with the Hutchinson Glacier in the northeast
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Location within Greenland
Location Sermersooq, Greenland
Coordinates 68°7′N32°55′W / 68.117°N 32.917°W / 68.117; -32.917
Terminus Kangerlussuaq Fjord,
North Atlantic Ocean

The Hutchinson Glacier (Danish : Hutchinson Gletscher) is a large active glacier on the east coast of the Greenland ice sheet. [1]

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This glacier was named after American aviator George R. Hutchinson who crash-landed and was stranded in the area in 1932 during an attempted around-the-world flight with his family and was rescued and brought to Ammasalik by a fishing trawler. [2]

Geography

The Hutchinson Glacier flows north of the Crown Prince Frederick Range from the Hutchinson Plateau in the northwest in a roughly eastern direction with an average elevation of 1,050 m (3,440 ft).

The terminus of the glacier is in the southern side of the mouth of the Kangerlussuaq Fjord, the second largest fjord in East Greenland. [3] [4]

This glacier is located in the Sermersooq municipality.

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References

  1. ↑ Brooks, Charles Kent, Geomorphological observations at Kangerdlugssuaq, East Greenland
  2. ↑ Wrecked Plane Flying Hutchinson's is Found On Greenland's Coast
  3. ↑ "Hutchinson Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  4. ↑ Deer, W. A., D. R. C. Kempe & G. C. Jones, Syenitic and associated intrusions of the Kap Edvard Holm region of Kangerdlugssuaq, East Greenland
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