Rink Glacier (Melville Bay) Explained

Rink Glacier
Other Name:Rink Gletscher
Type:Tidewater glacier
Location:NW Greenland
Map:Greenland
Coordinates:76.2°N -70°W
Mark:Blue_pog.svg
Width:6km (04miles)
Status:Retreating[1]

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

This glacier was named after Danish geologist and explorer of Greenland Hinrich Johannes Rink (1819 - 1893).

Geography

The Rink Glacier is located in the Lauge Koch Coast, Melville Bay.[3] It originates in the western Greenland ice sheet and flows southwestwards between the Døcker Smith Glacier to the west and the Peary Glacier to the east.[2] Its terminus lies ENE of Cape Murdoch, northeast of the Fisher Islands and north of the Balgoni Islands in Melville Bay.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. https://www.igsoc.org/journal/57/202/j10j045.pdf Warming, glacier melt and surface energy budget
  2. Web site: Rink 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]