Sharp Glacier (Greenland)
Sharp Glacier | |
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Sharp Gletscher | |
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Type | Tidal outlet glacier |
Location | Greenland |
Coordinates | 77°42′N 66°58′W / 77.700°N 66.967°WCoordinates: 77°42′N 66°58′W / 77.700°N 66.967°W |
Width | 2 km (1.2 mi) |
Terminus | Inglefield Fjord Baffin Bay |
Status | Retreating[1] |
Sharp Glacier (Danish: Sharp Gletscher), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland.[2] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.
This glacier was named by Robert Peary after (1858 – 1915), zoologist of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences who took part in the Peary expedition to Greenland of 1891-1892.[3]
Geography[]
The Sharp Glacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet and has its terminus in the northern side of the head of the Inglefield Fjord, NNW of . Its last stretch lies between two nunataks: in the western side, separating it from the Hart Glacier to the west. and in the eastern side, separating it from the Melville Glacier to the east.[2]
The Sharp Glacier flows roughly from north to south. 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 "Sharp 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
- Glaciers of Greenland
- Glacier stubs
- Greenland geography stubs