Sharp Glacier (Greenland)

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

This article is about the glacier in NW Greenland. For the glacier in Antarctica, see Sharp Glacier.
Sharp Glacier
Sharp Gletscher
Map of Northwestern Greenland
Map showing the location of Sharp Glacier
Map showing the location of Sharp Glacier
Location within Greenland
TypeTidal outlet glacier
LocationGreenland
Coordinates77°42′N 66°58′W
Width2 km (1.2 mi)
TerminusInglefield Fjord
Baffin Bay
StatusRetreating[1]

This glacier was named by Robert Peary after Benjamin Sharp (1858 – 1915), zoologist of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences who took part in the Peary expedition to Greenland of 1891-1892.[3]

Geography

The Sharp Glacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet and has its terminus in the northern side of the head of the Inglefield Fjord, NNW of Josephine Peary Island. Its last stretch lies between two nunataks: Mount Endicott in the western side, separating it from the Hart Glacier to the west. and Mount Asserson in the eastern side, separating it from the Melville Glacier to the east.[2]

The Sharp Glacier flows roughly from north to south. In the same manner as its neighboring glaciers, it has retreated by approximately 1 km (0.62 mi) in the period between the 1980s and 2014.[1]

19th century map of the Inglefield Gulf.

See also

References
  1. The recent regimen of the ice cap margin in North Greenland
  2. "Sharp Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  3. Robert Neff Keely, Gwilym George Davis, In Arctic Seas: the Voyage of the Kite with the Peary Expedition, 2011 p. 373


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