List of glaciers in Greenland - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This is a list of glaciers in Greenland. Details on the size and flow of some of the major Greenland

Greenland

Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe for...

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Glacier

A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...

s are listed by Eric Rignot and Pannir Kanagaratnam (2006)

Other glaciers

Academy Glacier (Greenland)
Chamberlin Glacier
Daugaard-Jensen Glacier
Daugaard-Jensen Glacier
Daugaard-Jensen Glacier , is a large glacier located on the southeast coast of Greenland. It drains an area of 50,150 km² of the Greenland Ice Sheet with a flux of 10.5 km3 per year, as measured for 1996. It is one of the main producers of icebergs to the north of Iceland....
Docker Glacier
Fenris
Gades Glacier
Hagen Glacier
Harald Moltke Glacier
Harald Moltke Glacier
The Harald Moltke Glacier is located in the far northwest of Greenland, to the north of the Thule Air Base. It is one of four large glaciers which feeds the Wolstenholme Fjord . The other glaciers are the Salisbury Glacier, the Chamberlin Glacier, and the Knud Rasmussen Glacier...
Hayes Glacier
Hayes Glacier (Greenland)
Hayes Glacier is a tidewater glacier in the Qaasuitsup municipality, located on the northwestern shore of Greenland. It drains the Greenland ice sheet southwards into Melville Bay. The glacier front is located to the east of the Tuttulikassak nunatak....
Heilprin Glacier
Helheim Glacier
Helheim Glacier
Helheim Glacier is one of Greenland's largest outlet glaciers. It accelerated from per year in 2000 to per year in 2005. Like many of Greenland's outlet glaciers it is the site of glacial earthquakes.-External links:...
Humboldt Glacier
Humboldt Glacier
Humboldt Glacier is the widest tidewater glacier in the Northern Hemisphere. It borders the Kane Basin in North West Greenland. Its front is wide. It has been retreating in the period of observation spanning 1975-2010. The glacier is named after German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt.-Footnotes:...
Ingia
Igdlugdlip Glaicer
Ikertivaq Glacier
Lille Glacier
Jakobshavn Isbræ
Jakobshavn Isbræ
Jakobshavn Isbræ, also known as the Jakobshavn Glacier and Sermeq Kujalleq is a large outlet glacier in West Greenland. It is located near the Greenlandic town of Ilulissat and ends at the sea in the Ilulissat Icefjord....
Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier
Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier
Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier is the largest glacier on the east coast of the Greenland ice sheet. It flows into the Denmark Strait.-External links:...
Kangerdlugssup Glacier
Kangerdluarssup Sermia
Karale Glacier
Karale Glacier
The Karale Glacier is one of the major glaciers in the area north of Kuummiit, Greenland....
Kangiata Nunata Sermia
Knud Rasmussen Glacier
Knud Rasmussen Glacier
The Knud Rasmussen Glacier is located in the far northwest of Greenland, to the north of the Thule Air Base. It is one of four large glaciers which feeds the Wolstenholme Fjord . The other glaciers are the Salisbury Glacier, the Chamberlin Glacier, and the Harald Moltke Glacier...
Kong Oscar Glacier
Kong Oscar Glacier
Kong Oscar Glacier is one of several glaciers that drain the north-western part of the Greenland Ice Sheet into Melville Bay. As part of a comprehensive survey of Greenland’s glaciers that was published in 2006, scientists documented that the mass balance—the sum of gains through snow accumulation...
Midgard Glacier
Mittivakkat Glacier
Mittivakkat Glacier
The Mittivakkat Glacier is located in SE Greenland, part of the largest icefield on Ammassalik Island. This glacier has been in retreat throughout most of recorded history ....
Nioghalvfjerdsbrae/79 Glacier
Nioghalvfjerdsbrae
Nioghalvfjerdsbrae , is a large glacier located in northeast Greenland. It drains an area of of the Greenland Ice Sheet with a flux of per year, as measured for 1996....
Nordenskiold Glacier
Nordenskiold Glacier
Nordenskiold Glacier , is a large glacier located on the east coast of Greenland. It drains an area of of the Greenland Ice Sheet with a flux of per year, as measured for 1996....
Nunatakavsaup Glacier
Nunatakassaap Sermia
Ostenfeld Glacier
Peary Glacier
Perdlerfiup Sermia
Petermann Glacier
Petermann glacier
Petermann Glacier is a large glacier located in North-West Greenland to the east of Nares Strait. It connects the Greenland ice sheet to the Arctic Ocean near 81 degrees north latitude. The tidewater glacier consists of a long and wide floating ice tongue whose thickness changes from about at...
Rink Glacier
Russell Glacier
Russell Glacier
Russell Glacier is a glacier in the Qeqqata municipality in central-western Greenland. It flows from the Greenland ice sheet in the western direction. The front of the glacier is located east of Kangerlussuaq...
Ryder Glacier
Salisbury Glacier
Salisbury Glacier
The Salisbury Glacier is located in the far northwest of Greenland, to the north of the Thule Air Base. It is one of four large glaciers which feeds the Wolstenholme Fjord . The other glaciers are the Chamberlin Glacier, the Knud Rasmussen Glacier, and the Harald Moltke Glacier...
Sermeq Avannarleq near Ilulissat
Sermeq Avannarleq in Uummannaq District
Sermeq Kujatdleq
Sermeq Kujatdleq
Sermeq Kujatdleq , is a large glacier located on the west coast of Greenland. It drains an area of of the Greenland Ice Sheet with a flux of per year, as measured for 1996....
Sermeq Silardleq
Sermilik Qagssimiut
Steenstrup Glacier
Storstrømmen Glacier
Store Glacier
Tingmjarmiut
Tracy Glacier
Upernavik Isstrøm
Umiamako Glacier
Umiamako Glacier
Umiamako Glacier , is a marine terminating glacier outlet to the inland ice sheet of Greenland. It flows down a long valley surrounded by some of the highest mountains in west Greenland....
Zachariae Isstrøm

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