Nunatak Glacier

Nunatak Glacier
Nunatak Glacier
	Nunatakgletscher
	View of the Nunatak Glacier terminus at the head of Geologfjord
	Location within Greenland
Type	Piedmont glacier
Location	Greenland
Coordinates	73°57′N 26°0′W
Length	20 km (12 mi)
Width	2.5 km (1.6 mi)
Terminus	Geologfjord; Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord; Greenland Sea

Nunatak Glacier (Danish: Nunatakgletscher), also known as Nunatak Glacier, [1] is a glacier in King Christian X Land, Northeast Greenland. Administratively it lies in the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.

The area where the glacier flows is remote and uninhabited.

History

This glacier was named Nunatak glacieren in 1899 by Swedish Arctic explorer and geologist A.G. Nathorst during the expedition he led to Greenland in search of survivors of S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897. The name was chosen owing to the tops of nunataks appearing to overhang it.[1]

Geography

The Nunatak Glacier originates at the eastern end of the Adolf Hoel Glacier, south of the area of the Jakob Kjøde Bjerg nunatak. Strindberg Land lies to the east and the northeastern end of Andrée Land on its western side. It flows in a roughly northwest to southeast direction for about 20 km (12 mi) until its terminus at the head of the Geologfjord.[2] The Eyvind Fjeld Glacier flows beyond the northwestern end of the Nunatak Glacier, to the west of Jakob Kjøde Bjerg.[3]

Map of Northeastern Greenland

Bibliography

A. K. Higgins, Jane A. Gilotti, M. Paul Smith (eds.), The Greenland Caledonides: Evolution of the Northeast Margin of Laurentia.
Louise A. Boyd and R. H. Menzies. Fiords of East Greenland: A Photographic Reconnaissance throughout the Franz Josef and King Oscar Flords, Geographical Review Vol. 22, No. 4 (Oct., 1932), pp. 529-561

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References

"Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
"Nunatakgletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
journey across the nunataks of central east greenland, 1951

External links

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[cat-1] "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 2 August 2019.

[mapcarta-2] "Nunatakgletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 2 August 2019.

[3] urney across the nunataks of central east greenland, 1951