- Source: Maniitsoq Ice Cap
Maniitsoq Ice Cap (old spelling: Manîtsoq, Danish: Sukkertoppen iskappe or Sukkertoppen isflade) is a 58 km × 41 km (36 mi × 25 mi) ice cap in the Qeqqata municipality in western Greenland.
Geography
There are no settlements in the vicinity of the ice cap. In the southeast, Maniitsoq ice cap is separated from the westward tongue of the Greenland ice sheet by the narrow Kangerlussuatsiaup Qingua valley. The summit of the ice cap reaches between 1,300 metres (4,265 ft) and 1,800 metres (5,906 ft). The maximum height is marked as an 8,000 feet (2,438 m) high summit in the Defense Mapping Agency Greenland Navigation charts, although it does not rise above 1,850 metres (6,070 ft).
In the south, several mountain glaciers drain it towards the upper reaches of the Kangerlussuatsiaq Fjord. To the west, the ice cap is drained by the long Sermitsiaq Glacier. To the northwest, numerous mountain glaciers drain it towards Kangerlussuaq Fjord. To the northeast of the ice sheet lies the wide highland of Angujaartorfiup Nunaa, home to herds of muskoxen, originally reintroduced in its northern part from the populations of the Northeast Greenland National Park.
See also
List of glaciers in Greenland
References
External links
Media related to Maniitsoq ice cap at Wikimedia Commons
Sukkertoppen, Greenland - Peakbagger
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- Maniitsoq Ice Cap
- Greenland ice sheet
- List of glaciers in Greenland
- Ice sheet
- Sermitsiaq Glacier
- Kangerlussuatsiaq Fjord
- Kangaamiut Kangerluarsuat Fjord
- Ammassalik Municipality
- Geography of Greenland
- Greenland
