Peary Glacier
Peary Gletscher
Map showing the location of Peary Glacier
Map showing the location of Peary Glacier
Location within Greenland
TypeTidewater glacier
LocationNW Greenland
Coordinates76°7′N 60°28′W / 76.117°N 60.467°W / 76.117; -60.467
Width6 km (3.7 mi)
TerminusMelville Bay
StatusRetreating[1]

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

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]

Map of Northwestern Greenland

See also

References

  1. ^ Mark Nuttall, Climate, Society and Subsurface Politics in Greenland: Under the Great Ice
  2. ^ a b "Peary Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  3. ^ Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 20 - GEUS
  4. ^ GoogleEarth
  5. ^ Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 84

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