Hurlbut Glacier Explained

Hurlbut Glacier
Other Name:Hurlbut Gletscher
Hurlbut Bræ
Type:Ice cap
Location:Greenland
Map:Greenland
Coordinates:77.3667°N -124°W
Mark:Blue_pog.svg
Area:188sqkm
Thickness:400m (1,300feet)
Terminus:Inglefield Fjord
Baffin Bay
Status:Retreating

Hurlbut Glacier (Danish: Hurlbut Gletscher) is a glacier in northwestern Greenland.[1] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.

This glacier was named by Robert Peary after George Hurlbut (1830 – 1908), secretary and librarian of the American Geographical Society.[2]

Geography

The Hurlbut Glacier is an ice cap located between Olrik Fjord and Inglefield Fjord with an outlet that flows roughly from south to north. The outlet has its terminus in the southern shore of the mid Inglefield Fjord.[1] In recent times it has retreated by less than 5m (16feet) per year.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hurlbut Gletscher. Mapcarta. 9 April 2019.
  2. [Josephine Diebitsch Peary]
  3. http://hydrologie.org/redbooks/a054/054032.pdf Studies of four glaciers in Greenland