Hurlbut Glacier

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

Hurlbut Glacier
Hurlbut Gletscher
Hurlbut Bræ
Location within Greenland
TypeIce cap
LocationGreenland
Coordinates77°22′N 66°58′W
Area188 km2 (73 sq mi)
Thickness400 m (1,300 ft)
TerminusInglefield Fjord
Baffin Bay
StatusRetreating[1]

This glacier was named by Robert Peary after Geoge Hurlbut (1830 – 1908), secretary and librarian of the American Geographical Society.[3]

Geography

The Hurlbut Glacier is an ice cap located between Olrik Fjord and Inglefield Fjord with an outlet that flows roughly from south to north. The outlet has its terminus in the southern shore of the mid Inglefield Fjord.[2] In recent times it has retreated by less than 5 m (16 ft) per year.[1]

Map of Northwestern Greenland
19th century map of the Inglefield Gulf.
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See also

References

  1. Studies of four glaciers in Greenland
  2. "Hurlbut Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
  3. Josephine Diebitsch Peary, Robert Edwin Peary, My Arctic Journal: A Year Among Ice-Fields and Eskimos, p. 144
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