Melville Glacier (Greenland)
| Melville Glacier | |
|---|---|
| Melville Gletscher | |
  Location within Greenland | |
| Type | Tidal outlet glacier |
| Location | Greenland |
| Coordinates | 77°44′N 66°39′W / 77.733°N 66.650°WCoordinates: 77°44′N 66°39′W / 77.733°N 66.650°W |
| Width | 2 km (1.2 mi) |
| Terminus | Inglefield Fjord Baffin Bay |
| Status | Retreating[1] |
Melville Glacier (Danish: Melville Gletscher), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland.[2] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.
This glacier was named by Robert Peary after Chief Engineer George W. Melville (1841 – 1912), Chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering.[3]
Geography[]
The Melville Glacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet and has its terminus in the northern side of the head of the Inglefield Fjord just north of . Its last stretch lies between two nunataks: in the east separates it from the Farquhar Glacier to the east, and , in the west, separates it from the Sharp Glacier to the west.[2]
The Melville Glacier flows roughly from NE to SW. 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 Ice front and flow speed variations of marine-terminating outlet glaciers along the coast of Prudhoe Land, northwestern Greenland
- ^ a b "Melville 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
External links[]
- Identifying Spatial Variability in Greenland's Outlet Glacier Response to Ocean Heat
- The recent regimen of the ice cap margin in North Greenland
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