- Source: Melville Glacier (Greenland)
Melville Glacier (Danish: Melville Gletscher), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.
This glacier was named by Robert Peary after Chief Engineer George W. Melville (1841 – 1912), Chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering.
Geography
The Melville Glacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet and has its terminus in the northern side of the head of the Inglefield Fjord just north of Josephine Peary Island. Its last stretch lies between two nunataks: Mount Lee in the east separates it from the Farquhar Glacier to the east, and Mount Asserson, in the west, separates it from the Sharp Glacier to the west.
The Melville Glacier flows roughly from NE to SW. In the same manner as its neighboring glaciers, it has retreated by approximately 1 km (0.62 mi) in the period between the 1980s and 2014.
See also
List of glaciers in Greenland
Inglefield Fjord
References
External links
Identifying Spatial Variability in Greenland's Outlet Glacier Response to Ocean Heat
The recent regimen of the ice cap margin in North Greenland
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Melville Glacier (Greenland)
- Melville
- List of glaciers in Greenland
- Peary Glacier
- Steenstrup Glacier
- King Oscar Glacier
- Nordenskiold Glacier
- Rink Glacier (Melville Bay)
- Kjer Glacier
- Hayes Glacier (Greenland)
