Peary Glacier Explained

Peary Glacier
Other Name:Peary Gletscher
Type:Tidewater glacier
Location:NW Greenland
Map:Greenland
Coordinates:76.1167°N -88°W
Mark:Blue_pog.svg
Width:6km (04miles)
Status:Retreating[1]

Peary Glacier (Danish: Peary Gletscher), is a glacier in north west Greenland.[2] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.

This glacier was named after US Arctic explorer Robert Peary (1856 - 1920).

Geography

The Peary Glacier is located in the Lauge Koch Coast, Melville Bay.[3] It originates in the western Greenland ice sheet and flows southwestwards between the Rink Glacier to the northwest and the King Oscar Glacier to the southeast.[2] Its terminus lies east of Cape Murdoch, northeast of the Balgoni Islands and Thalbitzer Næs in Melville Bay.[4] Unlike the neighboring King Oscar Glacier, it does not produce many icebergs.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Mark Nuttall, Climate, Society and Subsurface Politics in Greenland: Under the Great Ice
  2. Web site: Peary Gletscher. Mapcarta. 20 June 2019.
  3. http://www.geus.dk/media/12144/nr20_p079-082.pdf Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 20 - GEUS
  4. [GoogleEarth]
  5. Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 84