Morris Jesup Glacier | |
Other Name: | Morris Jesup Gletscher |
Type: | Tidal outlet glacier |
Location: | Greenland |
Map: | Greenland |
Coordinates: | 77.9333°N -124°W |
Mark: | Blue_pog.svg |
Width: | 5km (03miles) |
Terminus: | Unnamed fjord Smith Sound Baffin Bay |
Status: | Retreating |
Morris Jesup Glacier (Danish: Morris Jesup Gletscher, is a glacier in northwestern Greenland.[1] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.
This glacier was named by Robert Peary after American industrialist-philanthropist Morris K. Jesup, president of the Peary Arctic Club, who helped finance Peary's expeditions.[2]
The Morris Jesup Glacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet at the head of an unnamed fjord located just to the north of Cape Robertson in the Smith Sound area.[3] The glacier flows roughly from NE to SW.[4] The Diebitsch Glacier is located to the northwest, beyond Cape Saumarez, and Siorapaluup Kangerlua to the southeast, around Cape Robertson.[5]