Nunatakassaup Sermia

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Nunatakassaup Sermia
Location Upernavik Archipelago, Greenland
Coordinates 74°37′30″N56°20′00″W / 74.62500°N 56.33333°W / 74.62500; -56.33333
Terminus Melville Bay
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Nunatakassaup Sermia (Upernavik Archipelago)

Nunatakassaup Sermia (old spelling: Nunatakavsaup Sermia) is a tidewater glacier in Avannaata municipality on the northwestern shore of Greenland. It drains the Greenland ice sheet westwards into Melville Bay. [1] The glacier front is located between the Nunatakassak nunatak in the north, and the Wandel Land nunatak in the south. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Upernavik Avannarleq, Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992