Guldfaxe (glacier) explained

Guldfaxe
Other Name:	Guldfaxe Gletscher
Location:	Greenland
Map:	Greenland
Coordinates:	63.2167°N -72°W
Mark:	Blue pog.svg
Terminus:	Rimfaxe Glacier Sehested Fjord, North Atlantic Ocean

Guldfaxe (Danish: Guldfaxe Gletscher^[1]) is a glacier of the King Frederick VI Coast area in the Sermersooq municipality, southeastern Greenland.

This glacier is named after Gullfaxi, the golden-maned horse of Norse mythology.

Geography

Guldfaxe is a large, active glacier flowing from the eastern side of the Greenland ice sheet.^[2]

The Guldfaxe glacier flows roughly eastward between sharp nunataks and flows into the right side of the Rimfaxe Glacier shortly before its terminus in the Sehested Fjord.^[3]

See also

• List of glaciers in Greenland
• Skinfaxe (glacier)

External links

• Vulnerability of Southeast Greenland Glaciers to Warm Atlantic Water From Operation IceBridge and Ocean Melting Greenland Data
• Guldfaxe Glacier, NASA
• Rimfaxe and Guldfaxe Glaciers – NASA, Operation IceBridge
• Figure S21. Aerial images recorded in the latter half of World War II

Notes and References

1. http://gst.dk/media/2915914/den-groenlandske-lods-sejladsanvisniner-oestgroenland.pdf Den grønlandske Lods – Geodatastyrelsen
2. [GoogleEarth]
3. Web site: Guldfaxe. GeoHack. 11 June 2021.