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).
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]