Nordenskiöld Glacier (Novaya Zemlya) Explained

Nordenskiöld Glacier ледник Норденшельда
Type:	Tidewater glacier group
Location:	Novaya Zemlya Russian Federation
Map:	Russia Novaya Zemlya
Label Position:	top
Coordinates:	75.85°N 123°W
Mark:	Blue_pog.svg
Length:	20 km (average)
Width:	5 km (average)
Terminus:	Kara Sea
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The Nordenskiöld Glacier (Russian: ледник Норденшельда; lednik Nordenshel'da) is a group of four glaciers in Novaya Zemlya, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.^[1]

This glacier group was named after Arctic explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld.

Geography

See also: Severny Island ice cap. The Nordenskiöld Glacier group is located on the eastern side of the northern Severny Island of Novaya Zemlya. Flowing from the Severny Island ice cap, it is composed of four roughly north–south oriented tidewater glaciers:

• Vershinsky Glacier (Lednik Vershinskogo), the southwesternmost
• Rozhdestvensky Glacier (Lednik Rozhdestvenskogo)
• Novopashenny Glacier (Lednik Novopashennogo), also known as Lednik Sredniy^[2]
• Roze Glacier (Lednik Roze), the northeasternmost

Their fronts have widths of over 3 km on average and their terminuses are in the Kara Sea between Cape Opasnyy and Cape Middendorff.^[3]

See also

• List of glaciers in Europe
• List of glaciers in Russia

Further reading

• J. J. Zeeberg, Climate and Glacial History of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, Russian Arctic. Purdue University Press (January 1, 2002)

External links

• Changes in glacier extent on north Novaya Zemlya

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lednik Nordenshel’da. Mapcarta. 19 November 2016.
2. Web site: Lednik Sredniy. Mapcarta. 19 November 2016.
3. [GoogleEarth]