Akuliarutsip Sermerssua Explained

Akuliarutsip Sermerssua
Other Name:Nordenskiold Glacier
Location:Greenland
Map:Greenland
Coords:73.05°N -41°W
Mark:Blue_pog.svg
Area:62647km (38,927miles)
Terminus:Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord
Greenland Sea

Akuliarutsip Sermerssua, also known as Nordenskiöld Glacier, (Danish: Nordenskiöld Gletscher), is a large glacier located on the east coast of Greenland.

Geography

This glacier flows into the head of the Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord, just 7km (04miles) west of the mouth of Kjerulf Fjord, and marks the southern limit of Fraenkel Land and the northern of Goodenoughland.[1] Petermann Peak, one of the highest mountains in Greenland, and the highest in the area, rises to a height of on a nunatak rising right by the northern side of the fjord.[2]

The Nordenskiöld Glacier flows roughly in a WSW/ENE direction, draining an area of 62647km (38,927miles) of the Greenland Ice Sheet with a flux (quantity of ice moved from the land to the sea) of 10.7km3 per year, as measured for 1996.[3]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kjerulf Fjord. Mapcarta. 10 October 2019.
  2. http://www.geus.dk/publications/bull/nr21/nr21_map_4.pdf Map
  3. Rignot E., Kanagaratnam P. . Changes in the velocity structure of the Greenland Ice Sheet . . 311 . 986–990 . 2006 . 10.1126/science.1121381 . 16484490 . 5763.