Leidy Glacier

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Leidy Glacier
Leidy Gletscher
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Leidy Glacier as seen during an Operation IceBridge flight on 22 March 2017. Credit:NASA/Nathan Kurtz
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Location within Greenland
Type Tidal outlet glacier
Location Greenland
Coordinates 77°16′N66°2′W / 77.267°N 66.033°W / 77.267; -66.033
Width4 km (2.5 mi)
Terminus Academy Fjord
Inglefield Fjord
Baffin Bay
StatusRetreating [1]

Leidy Glacier (Danish : Leidy 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 paleontologist, parasitologist, and anatomist Joseph Leidy (1823 – 1891), member of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. [3]

Geography

The Leidy Glacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet through the Academy Glacier. [2]

The glacier flows roughly from SE to NW and, after forming an unusual cross pattern, it has its terminus at the head of the Academy Fjord to the northwest and, as the Marie Glacier, at the head of the Olrik Fjord to the southwest. [4] [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 The recent regimen of the ice cap margin in North Greenland
  2. 1 2 "Leidy Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  3. ↑ Robert Neff Keely, Gwilym George Davis, In Arctic Seas: the Voyage of the Kite with the Peary Expedition, 2011 p. 373
  4. ↑ Greenland’s Leidy Glacier; NASA Earth Observatory
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