Rink Glacier Explained

Rink Glacier
Other Name:Kangilliup Sermia
Rink Isbræ
Location:Avannaata, Greenland
Map:Greenland
Coordinates:71.75°N -91°W
Mark:Blue_pog.svg
Terminus:Karrat Fjord, Baffin Bay,
North Atlantic Ocean

Rink Glacier (Danish: Rink Isbræ; Kalaallisut; Greenlandic: Kangilliup Sermia) is a glacier in Avannaata, Greenland.

This glacier is named in honor of Hinrich Johannes Rink, Danish geologist and Greenlandic researcher.

Geography

The Rink Glacier is the largest glacier on the west coast of Greenland. Its terminus is in the Karrat Fjord, Nordost Bay, Baffin Bay, North Atlantic Ocean.[1]

It drains an area of 30182km2 of the Greenland Ice Sheet with a flux (quantity of ice moved from the land to the sea) of 12.1km3 per year, as measured for 1996.[2] As reported by Anker Weidick and Ole Bennike in 2007, it is ranked second or third in iceberg production in western Greenland.[3] It is also the swiftest moving and highest surface ice in the world.[4]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rink Isbræ. Mapcarta. 10 February 2017.
  2. Rignot E., Kanagaratnam P. . Changes in the velocity structure of the Greenland Ice Sheet . . 311 . 986–990 . 2006 . 10.1126/science.1121381 . 16484490 . 5763. 2006Sci...311..986R . 22389368 .
  3. Web site: Rink Glacier, NW Greenland. February 6, 2009. osu.edu. 18 July 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100707143428/http://bprc.osu.edu/MODIS/?p=28 . 7 July 2010.
  4. Dec 1933. Popular Science. Bonnier Corporation. Popular Science. 123. 6. 25. 0161-7370.