Sif Glacier

Sif Glacier (Danish: Sifs Gletscher), is a glacier in northern Greenland.[2] Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park.

Sif Glacier
Sif Gletscher
Map showing the location of Sif Glacier
Map showing the location of Sif Glacier
Location within Greenland
TypeValley glacier
LocationGreenland
Coordinates83°22′N 31°0′W
Width2.5 km (1.6 mi)
TerminusTvillingesø
StatusRetreating[1]
Map of Northern Ellesmere Island and far Northern Greenland.

History

The Sif Glacier was seen during aerial surveys by Lauge Koch and was named after Sif, the goddess representing Mother Earth in Norse mythology.

The glacier was first explored from the ground by the British Joint Services Expedition in 1969.[3]

Geography

The Sif Glacier is a slow-moving glacier located in Johannes V. Jensen Land, roughly in the middle of the Roosevelt Range. It flows in a WSW/ENE direction from the ice cap of the Mary Peary Peaks, bifurcating south of the Birgit Koch Peaks with one arm flowing roughly northwards and another southwards until their terminuses in the Northern and in the Southern Tvillingesø (Twin Lakes) respectively.[3]

The northern branch of the Sif Glacier ends in a valley open to the north with its mouth in Constable Bay, where it formed prominent terminal moraines in the past.[4]

See also

References
  1. The recent regimen of the ice cap margin in North Greenland
  2. "Sif Glacier". Mapcarta. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
  3. Arctic Report, 121
  4. The terminal moraine in Constable Bugt
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