Nordenskiold Glacier

For the glacier near Disko Bay, see Nordenskiold Glacier, West Greenland. For the glacier in East Greenland, see Akuliarutsip Sermerssua. For the glacier in Russia, see Nordenskiöld Glacier (Novaya Zemlya).

Nordenskiold Glacier
Nordenskiöld Gletscher
File:Nordenskiold.jpg Photograph of Nordenskiold Glacier by the US Coast Guard.
Map showing the location of Nordenskiold Glacier Map showing the location of Nordenskiold Glacier Location within Greenland
Type	Tidewater glacier
Location	Greenland
Coordinates	75°48′N 59°0′W
Terminus	Melville Bay

Nordenskiold Glacier (Danish: Nordenskiöld Gletscher), is a large glacier in the Avannaata Municipality, on the northwestern coast of Greenland.

Geography

This glacier is located in the Lauge Koch Coast of Melville Bay, north of the Upernavik Archipelago. It drains the Greenland ice sheet (Greenlandic: Sermersuaq) and flows southwestwards between the King Oscar Glacier to the northwest and the Sverdrup Glacier to the southeast.

File:Operational Navigation Chart B-8, 3rd edition.jpg Map of Northwestern Greenland

See also

• List of glaciers in Greenland

External links

• NSIDC Picture