Academy Glacier (Danish: Academy Gletscher), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland.[1] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.
Academy Glacier | |
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Academy Gletscher | |
Type | Piedmont glacier |
Location | Greenland |
Coordinates | 77°14′N 65°26′W / 77.233°N 65.433°W |
Terminus | Leidy Glacier; Academy Fjord Inglefield Fjord |
The glacier was named by Robert Peary after the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.
Geography edit
The Academy Glacier is located inland and discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet into the Leidy Glacier which bifurcates and has its terminus in the Academy Fjord, as well as in the Olrik Fjord as the smaller Marie Glacier.[2][1]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b "Academy Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ^ Greenland’s Leidy Glacier; NASA Earth Observatory
External links edit
- The recent regimen of the ice cap margin in North Greenland Archived 2021-06-25 at the Wayback Machine