Sun Glacier Explained

Sun Glacier
Other Name:	Sun Gletscher
Type:	Tidal outlet glacier
Location:	Greenland
Map:	Greenland
Coordinates:	77.8167°N -91°W
Mark:	Blue_pog.svg
Width:	5.5km (03.4miles)
Terminus:	MacCormick Fjord Murchison Sound Baffin Bay
Status:	Retreating

Sun Glacier (Danish: Sun Gletscher; old Greenlandic spelling: Iterdlagssûp Qíngua), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland.^[1] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.

This glacier was named by Robert Peary.^[2] It was the subject of paintings by Frank Wilbert Stokes at the end of the 19th century.^[3] In a 1892 painting Stokes described the terminus of the glacier:

Geography

The Sun Glacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet at the head of the MacCormick Fjord.^[4]

The glacier flows roughly from NNE to SSW.^[5]

See also

• List of glaciers in Greenland
• Inglefield Fjord

External links

• Identifying Spatial Variability in Greenland's Outlet Glacier Response to Ocean Heat

Notes and References

1. Web site: Iterdlagssûp Qíngua. Mapcarta. 3 April 2019.
2. Robert Neff Keely, Gwilym George Davis, In Arctic Seas: the Voyage of the Kite with the Peary Expedition, 2011 p. 373
3. https://archive.org/stream/PaintingsbyFrankWilbertStokes18962/PaintingsbyFrankWilbertStokes1896%20%282%29_djvu.txt Paintings by Frank Wilbert Stokes 1896
4. https://www.jstor.org/stable/30054914 T. C. Chamberlin, Glacial Studies in Greenland. The Journal of Geology Vol. 5, No. 3 (Apr. - May, 1897), pp. 229-240. Published by: The University of Chicago Press
5. http://hydrologie.org/redbooks/a058/05813.pdf The recent regimen of the ice cap margin in North Greenland