Kjer Glacier | |
Other Name: | Kjærs Bræ |
Location: | Melville Bay, Greenland |
Map: | Greenland |
Mark: | Blue_pog.svg |
Coords: | 75.05°N -92°W |
Terminus: | Melville Bay |
Kjer Glacier is a tidewater glacier in the northwestern shore of Greenland. Administratively it belongs to Avannaata municipality.
It drains the Greenland ice sheet (Kalaallisut; Greenlandic: Sermersuaq) southwestwards into Melville Bay[1] south of the Steenstrup Glacier and north of the Hayes Glacier.[2] The glacier front is located to the northwest of the Tuttulikassak nunatak, with the glacier constituting the northern end of Upernavik Archipelago.[1]
Before the administrative changes on 1 January 2009 in the country, the border between the former Upernavik Municipality and the former Qaanaaq Municipality ran through Kjer Glacier.[1] After that date both municipalities and the entire coast of Melville Bay were made part of Qaasuitsup municipality.[3] Since 1 January 2018 it is part of Avannaata municipality.