Steensby Glacier

Steensby Glacier
Steensby Gletscher
The Steensby Glacier between Petermann Glacier and Ryder Glacier in a NASA picture
Location within Greenland
Type	Tidal outlet glacier
Location	Greenland
Coordinates	81°27′N53°0′W / 81.450°N 53.000°W / 81.450; -53.000 Coordinates: 81°27′N53°0′W / 81.450°N 53.000°W / 81.450; -53.000
Area	4,700 km2 (1,800 sq mi)
Length	60 km (37 mi)
Width	4.8 km (3.0 mi)
Thickness	75 m (246 ft) - 105 m (344 ft)
Terminus	Saint George Fjord; Lincoln Sea

Steensby Glacier (Danish : Steensby Gletscher) is a major glacier in northern Greenland. ^[1]

This glacier was first mapped in 1917 during Knud Rasmussen's 1916–1918 Second Thule Expedition to north Greenland and was named after Danish ethnologist Hans Peder Steensby.

Geography

The Steensby Glacier originates in the Greenland Ice Sheet. It is roughly north–south oriented and has its terminus between Nyeboe Land and Warming Land at the head of the Saint George Fjord. The fjord is free from ice in the summer, and the glacier forms a floating tongue within the fjord that has shrunk since it was measured in 1963. ^{[2] [3]}

Map of part of Ellesmere Island and far Northern Greenland.

Bibliography

• Anthony K. Higgins, North Greenland Glacier Velocities and Calf Ice Production

See also

• List of glaciers in Greenland

References

1. • Geonames - Steensby Gletscher
   • Contribution to the glaciology of northern Greenland - UCI ESS
2. The Terminal Disintegration of Steensby Gletscher, North Greenland
3. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, Volume 1386, Part 3, figure 37

External links

• Steensby Glacier Calving Event and Retreat, Northern Greenland