Hart Glacier (Greenland)
| Hart Glacier | |
|---|---|
| Hart Gletscher | |
  Location within Greenland | |
| Type | Tidal outlet glacier |
| Location | Greenland |
| Coordinates | 77°41′N 67°9′W / 77.683°N 67.150°WCoordinates: 77°41′N 67°9′W / 77.683°N 67.150°W |
| Width | 2 km (1.2 mi) |
| Terminus | Inglefield Fjord Baffin Bay |
| Status | Retreating[1] |
Hart Glacier (Danish: Hart Gletscher), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland.[2] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.
This glacier was named by Robert Peary after (1848 – 1909), permanent Councillor and member of the Finance committee of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, who helped Peary raise funds for his expeditions.[3]
Geography[]
The Hart Glacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet and has its terminus in the northern side of the head of the Inglefield Fjord, northwest of . Its last stretch lies between in the west and , a nunatak that separates it from the Sharp Glacier to the east.[2]
The Hart Glacier flows roughly from NW to SE. 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]
 Map of Northwestern Greenland |
 19th century map of the Inglefield Gulf. |
See also[]
- List of glaciers in Greenland
- Inglefield Fjord
References[]
- ^ a b The recent regimen of the ice cap margin in North Greenland
- ^ a b "Hart Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
- ^ Robert Neff Keely, Gwilym George Davis, In Arctic Seas: the Voyage of the Kite with the Peary Expedition, 2011 p. 373
External links[]
- Identifying Spatial Variability in Greenland's Outlet Glacier Response to Ocean Heat
- Ice front and flow speed variations of marine-terminating outlet glaciers along the coast of Prudhoe Land, northwestern Greenland
- Iceberg in front of 'Hart Glacier'. Inglefield Bredening. Northwest Greenland.
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