Nordenskiöld Glacier (Novaya Zemlya)

Nordenskiöld Glacier ледник Норденшельда
NASA picture of (left), (middle) and glaciers of the Nordenskiöld Glacier group
Location within Novaya Zemlya, Russia
Type	Tidewater glacier group
Location	Novaya Zemlya Russian Federation
Coordinates	75°51′N 64°59′E / 75.850°N 64.983°E / 75.850; 64.983Coordinates: 75°51′N 64°59′E / 75.850°N 64.983°E / 75.850; 64.983
Length	20 km (average)
Width	5 km (average)
Terminus	Kara Sea

The Nordenskiöld Glacier (Russian: ледник Норденшельда; lednik Nordenshel'da) is a group of four glaciers in Novaya Zemlya, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.^[1]

This glacier group was named after Arctic explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld.

Geography[]

The Nordenskiöld Glacier group is located on the eastern side of northern Severny Island of Novaya Zemlya. Flowing from the Severny Island ice cap, it is composed of four roughly north-south oriented tidewater glaciers:

• Vershinsky Glacier (Lednik Vershinskogo), the soutwesternmost
• Rozhdestvensky Glacier (Lednik Rozhdestvenskogo)
• Novopashenny Glacier (Lednik Novopashennogo), also known as Lednik Sredniy^[2]
• Roze Glacier (Lednik Roze), the northeasternmost

Their fronts have widths of over 3 km in average and their terminuses are in the Kara Sea between Cape Opasnyy and Cape Middendorff.^[3]

Map of northern Novaya Zemlya and southern Franz Josef Land.

See also[]

• List of glaciers in Europe
• List of glaciers in Russia

Further reading[]

• J. J. Zeeberg, Climate and Glacial History of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, Russian Arctic. Purdue University Press (January 1, 2002) ISBN 978-9051705638

References[]

External links[]

• Changes in glacier extent on north Novaya Zemlya

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