Nunatak Glacier

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Nunatak Glacier
Nunatakgletscher
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View of the Nunatak Glacier terminus at the head of Geologfjord
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Location within Greenland
Type Piedmont glacier
Location Greenland
Coordinates 73°57′N26°0′W / 73.950°N 26.000°W / 73.950; -26.000
Length20 km (12 mi)
Width2.5 km (1.6 mi)
Terminus Geologfjord
Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord
Greenland Sea

Nunatak Glacier (Danish : Nunatakgletscher), also known as Nunatak Glacier, [1] is a glacier in King Christian X Land, Northeast Greenland. Administratively it lies in the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.

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The area where the glacier flows is remote and uninhabited.

History

This glacier was named Nunatak glacieren in 1899 by Swedish Arctic explorer and geologist A.G. Nathorst during the expedition he led to Greenland in search of survivors of S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897. The name was chosen owing to the tops of nunataks appearing to overhang it. [1]

Geography

The Nunatak Glacier originates at the eastern end of the Adolf Hoel Glacier, south of the area of the Jakob Kjøde Bjerg nunatak. Strindberg Land lies to the east and the northeastern end of Andrée Land on its western side. It flows in a roughly northwest to southeast direction for about 20 km (12 mi) until its terminus at the head of the Geologfjord. [2] The Eyvind Fjeld Glacier flows beyond the northwestern end of the Nunatak Glacier, to the west of Jakob Kjøde Bjerg. [3]

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Map of Northeastern Greenland

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References

  1. 1 2 "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  2. ↑ "Nunatakgletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  3. ↑ journey across the nunataks of central east greenland, 1951
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