Nordenskiöld Glacier

For the glacier near Disko Bay, see Nordenskiold Glacier, West Greenland. For the glacier in East Greenland, see Akuliarutsip Sermerssua. For the glacier in Russia, see Nordenskiöld Glacier (Novaya Zemlya).
Nordenskiöld Glacier
Nordenskiöld Gletscher
Photograph of Nordenskiöld Glacier by the US Coast Guard
Location within Greenland
TypeTidewater glacier
LocationGreenland
Coordinates75°48′N 59°0′W / 75.800°N 59.000°W / 75.800; -59.000
TerminusMelville Bay

Nordenskiöld Glacier (Danish: Nordenskiöld Gletscher), is a large glacier in the Avannaata Municipality, on the northwestern coast of Greenland.

Geography

This glacier is located in the Lauge Koch Coast of Melville Bay, north of the Upernavik Archipelago. It drains the Greenland ice sheet (Greenlandic: Sermersuaq) and flows southwestwards between the King Oscar Glacier to the northwest and the Sverdrup Glacier to the southeast.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Nordenskiöld Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 11 July 2016.


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