| Steensby Glacier | |
| Other Name: | Steensby Gletscher |
| Type: | Tidal outlet glacier |
| Location: | Greenland |
| Map: | Greenland |
| Coordinates: | 81.45°N -53°W |
| Mark: | Blue_pog.svg |
| Area: | 4700sqkm |
| Length: | 60km (40miles) |
| Width: | 4.8km (03miles) |
| Thickness: | 75m (246feet) - 105m (344feet) |
| Terminus: | Saint George Fjord |
Steensby Glacier (Danish: Steensby Gletscher) is a major glacier in northern Greenland.[1]
This glacier was first mapped in 1917 during Knud Rasmussen's 1916–1918 Second Thule Expedition to north Greenland and was named after Danish ethnologist Hans Peder Steensby.
The Steensby Glacier originates in the Greenland Ice Sheet. It is roughly north–south oriented and has its terminus between Nyeboe Land and Warming Land at the head of the Saint George Fjord. The fjord is free from ice in the summer, and the glacier forms a floating tongue within the fjord that has shrunk since it was measured in 1963.[2] [3]