Sharp Glacier (Greenland)

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Sharp Glacier
Sharp Gletscher
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Location within Greenland
Type Tidal outlet glacier
Location Greenland
Coordinates 77°42′N66°58′W / 77.700°N 66.967°W / 77.700; -66.967 Coordinates: 77°42′N66°58′W / 77.700°N 66.967°W / 77.700; -66.967
Width2 km (1.2 mi)
Terminus Inglefield Fjord
Baffin Bay
StatusRetreating [1]

Sharp Glacier (Danish : Sharp 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 Benjamin Sharp (1858 – 1915), zoologist of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences who took part in the Peary expedition to Greenland of 1891-1892. [3]

Geography

The Sharp Glacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet and has its terminus in the northern side of the head of the Inglefield Fjord, NNW of Josephine Peary Island. Its last stretch lies between two nunataks: Mount Endicott in the western side, separating it from the Hart Glacier to the west. and Mount Asserson in the eastern side, separating it from the Melville Glacier to the east. [2]

The Sharp Glacier flows roughly from north to south. In the same manner as its neighboring glaciers, it has retreated by approximately 1 km (0.62 mi) in the period between the 1980s and 2014. [1]

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Map of Northwestern Greenland
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 "Sharp 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


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