Peary Glacier

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Peary Glacier
Peary Gletscher
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Location within Greenland
Type Tidewater glacier
LocationNW Greenland
Coordinates 76°7′N60°28′W / 76.117°N 60.467°W / 76.117; -60.467
Width6 km (3.7 mi)
Terminus Melville Bay
StatusRetreating [1]

Peary Glacier (Danish : Peary Gletscher), is a glacier in north west Greenland. [2] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.

Contents

This glacier was named after US Arctic explorer Robert Peary (1856 - 1920).

Geography

The Peary Glacier is located in the Lauge Koch Coast, Melville Bay. [3] It originates in the western Greenland ice sheet and flows southwestwards between the Rink Glacier to the northwest and the King Oscar Glacier to the southeast. [2] Its terminus lies east of Cape Murdoch, northeast of the Balgoni Islands and Thalbitzer Næs in Melville Bay. [4] Unlike the neighboring King Oscar Glacier, it does not produce many icebergs. [5]

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Map of Northwestern Greenland

See also

References

  1. ↑ Mark Nuttall, Climate, Society and Subsurface Politics in Greenland: Under the Great Ice
  2. 1 2 "Peary Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  3. ↑ "Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 20 - GEUS" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-06-20. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
  4. ↑ GoogleEarth
  5. ↑ Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 84


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