Farquhar Glacier
Farquhar Glacier | |
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Farquhar Gletscher | |
Location within Greenland | |
Type | Tidal outlet glacier |
Location | Greenland |
Coordinates | 77°41′N 66°16′W / 77.683°N 66.267°WCoordinates: 77°41′N 66°16′W / 77.683°N 66.267°W |
Width | 2.5 km (1.6 mi) |
Terminus | Inglefield Fjord Baffin Bay |
Status | Retreating[1] |
Farquhar Glacier (Danish: Farquhar Gletscher), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland.[2] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.
This glacier was named by Robert Peary after Commodore Farquhar (1840 – 1907), Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks.[3]
Geography[]
The Farquhar Glacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet into the northern side of the head of the Inglefield Fjord just northeast of . Its terminus lies between two nunataks: in the east separates it from the Tracy Glacier to the southeast and , a larger nunatak to the west, separates it from the Melville Glacier to the northwest.[2]
Formerly the roughly NE/SW flowing Farquhar Glacier joined with the east/west flowing Tracy Glacier at their terminus.[1] However, these two glaciers lost contact after the terminus disintegrated in 2002.[4]
See also[]
- List of glaciers in Greenland
- Inglefield Fjord
- Glacier terminus
References[]
- ^ a b "Tracy Gletscher Retreat 1987-2013, Northwest Greenland". From a Glaciers Perspective. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
- ^ a b "Farquhar Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
- ^ Robert Neff Keely, Gwilym George Davis, In Arctic Seas: the Voyage of the Kite with the Peary Expedition, 2011 p. 373
- ^ Ice front and flow speed variations of marine-terminating outlet glaciers along the coast of Prudhoe Land, northwestern Greenland
External links[]
- Glaciers of Greenland
- Greenland geography stubs