Farquhar Glacier

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

Farquhar Glacier
Farquhar Gletscher
Map of Northwestern Greenland
Map showing the location of Farquhar Glacier
Map showing the location of Farquhar Glacier
Location within Greenland
TypeTidal outlet glacier
LocationGreenland
Coordinates77°41′N 66°16′W
Width2.5 km (1.6 mi)
TerminusInglefield Fjord
Baffin Bay
StatusRetreating[1]

This glacier was named by Robert Peary after Commodore Farquhar (1840 – 1907), Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks.[3]

Geography

The Farquhar Glacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet into the northern side of the head of the Inglefield Fjord just northeast of Josephine Peary Island. Its terminus lies between two nunataks: Mount Lee in the east separates it from the Tracy Glacier to the southeast and Mount Field, a larger nunatak to the west, separates it from the Melville Glacier to the northwest.[2]

Formerly the roughly NE/SW flowing Farquhar Glacier joined with the east/west flowing Tracy Glacier at their terminus.[1] However, these two glaciers lost contact after the terminus disintegrated in 2002.[4]

19th century map of the Inglefield Gulf.

See also

References
  1. "Tracy Gletscher Retreat 1987-2013, Northwest Greenland". From a Glaciers Perspective. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  2. "Farquhar Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  3. Robert Neff Keely, Gwilym George Davis, In Arctic Seas: the Voyage of the Kite with the Peary Expedition, 2011 p. 373
  4. Ice front and flow speed variations of marine-terminating outlet glaciers along the coast of Prudhoe Land, northwestern Greenland
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