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).
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]