Daugaard-Jensen Glacier

The Daugaard-Jensen Glacier is a large glacier located on the southeast coast of Greenland.

Daugaard-Jensen Glacier
Photograph of Daugaard-Jensen Glacier taken from a helicopter.
Map showing the location of Daugaard-Jensen Glacier
Map showing the location of Daugaard-Jensen Glacier
Location within Greenland
LocationGreenland
Coordinates71°46′N 29°15′W
Area50,150 km²
TerminusNordvestfjord, Greenland Sea

The glacier was first mapped in 1933 by Lauge Koch during aerial surveys made during the 1931–34 Three-year Expedition to East Greenland (Treårsekspeditionen). It is named in honour of Niels Daugaard-Jensen, who was head of the Greenland department under the Danish Ministry of State and former governor (Landsfoged) of Northern Greenland.[1]

Geography

Located in the northwestern side of Hinksland and south of Charcot Land, it drains an area of 50,150 km2 of the Greenland Ice Sheet with a flux (quantity of ice moved from the land to the sea) of 10.5 km3 per year, as measured for 1996.[2]

With its terminus in the Nordvestfjord of the Scoresby Sound, it is one of the main producers of icebergs to the north of Iceland.[3]

See also

References
  1. "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
  2. Rignot E., Kanagaratnam P. (2006). "Changes in the velocity structure of the Greenland Ice Sheet". Science. 311 (5763): 986–990. doi:10.1126/science.1121381. PMID 16484490.
  3. Reynisson R.F., Jacobsson S.P. (2009). "Xenoliths of exotic origin at Surtsey volcano, Iceland" (PDF). Surtsey Research. 12: 21–27.


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