Sun Glacier

Sun Glacier (Danish: Sun Gletscher; old Greenlandic spelling: Iterdlagssûp Qíngua), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland.[2] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.

Sun Glacier
Sun Gletscher
View of the Sun Glacier with the MacCormick Fjord in the distance
Location within Greenland
TypeTidal outlet glacier
LocationGreenland
Coordinates77°49′N 69°22′W
Width5.5 km (3.4 mi)
TerminusMacCormick Fjord
Murchison Sound
Baffin Bay
StatusRetreating[1]

This glacier was named by Robert Peary.[3] It was the subject of paintings by Frank Wilbert Stokes at the end of the 19th century.[4] In a 1892 painting Stokes described the terminus of the glacier:

The foreground is that of the glacier. The green patches represent crevasses or cavities in the ice, which, in this case, are tilled with water from melting snows and ice. Looking down into them through the transparent waters one sees fairy-like grottos of beautiful and fantastic shapes. They are colored in many shades from deep indigo blue to the most delicate turquoise blue, and in greens of as many hues. The waters of the bay are dark green, while the cliffs, ice- covered, are in deep plum color. [5]

Geography

The Sun Glacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet at the head of the MacCormick Fjord.[6]

The glacier flows roughly from NNE to SSW.[1]

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

See also

References
  1. The recent regimen of the ice cap margin in North Greenland
  2. "Iterdlagssûp Qíngua". 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
  4. Paintings by Frank Wilbert Stokes 1896
  5. A View from a Glacier (Sun Glacier). — Head of McCormick Bay. Approach of a snow-storm during search for Verhoef, 1 a. m., August 19, ’92.
  6. T. C. Chamberlin, Glacial Studies in Greenland. The Journal of Geology Vol. 5, No. 3 (Apr. - May, 1897), pp. 229-240. Published by: The University of Chicago Press
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