Tracy Glacier (Greenland)

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Tracy Glacier
Tracy Gletscher
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Location within Greenland
Type Tidal outlet glacier
Location Greenland
Coordinates 77°39′N66°2′W / 77.650°N 66.033°W / 77.650; -66.033
Width4 km (2.5 mi)
Terminus Inglefield Fjord
Baffin Bay
StatusRetreating [1]

Tracy Glacier (Danish : Tracy 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 F. Tracy (1830 – 1915), United States Secretary of the Navy, who granted him three years' leave in order to engage in Arctic explorations. [3]

Geography

The Tracy Glacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet into the head of the Inglefield Fjord just east of Josephine Peary Island. Its terminus lies between two nunataks. Mount Lee, the northern one, separates it from the Farquhar Glacier to the northwest and a larger nunatak, the Smithson Range, separates it from the Heilprin Glacier to the south. [2]

Although the Tracy Glacier is contiguous to the Heilprin Glacier, both glaciers have a different nature, a fact which has been a source of puzzlement for scientists for over a century. [4]

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. ↑ Tracy Gletscher Retreat 1987-2013, Northwest Greenland
  2. 1 2 "Tracy Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 30 March 2019.
  3. ↑ PEARY MAY SEEK THE POLE.; SECRETARY TRACY DECIDES TO GRANT THE REQUEST OF THE SCIENTISTS. - NY Times, 1892
  4. ↑ "NASA Discovered Why Greenland's Glaciers Are Melting at Different Speeds". Inverse. 23 June 2018. Retrieved 30 March 2019.


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