| Hart Glacier | |
|---|---|
| Hart Gletscher | |
 Map of Northwestern Greenland | |
  Location within Greenland | |
| Type | Tidal outlet glacier |
| Location | Greenland |
| Coordinates | 77°41′N 67°9′W / 77.683°N 67.150°W |
| Width | 2 km (1.2 mi) |
| Terminus | Inglefield Fjord Baffin Bay |
| Status | Retreating[1] |
Hart Glacier (Danish: Hart Gletscher), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland.[2] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.
This glacier was named by Robert Peary after Gavin W. Hart (1848 – 1909), permanent Councillor and member of the Finance committee of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, who helped Peary raise funds for his expeditions.[3]
Geography
The Hart Glacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet and has its terminus in the northern side of the head of the Inglefield Fjord, northwest of Josephine Peary Island. Its last stretch lies between Prudhoe Land in the west and Mount Endicott, a nunatak that separates it from the Sharp Glacier to the east.[2]
The Hart Glacier flows roughly from NW to SE. 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.[1]
.jpg.webp) 19th century map of the Inglefield Gulf. |
See also
References
- 1 2 The recent regimen of the ice cap margin in North Greenland
- 1 2 "Hart Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
- ↑ Robert Neff Keely, Gwilym George Davis, In Arctic Seas: the Voyage of the Kite with the Peary Expedition, 2011 p. 373
External links
- Identifying Spatial Variability in Greenland's Outlet Glacier Response to Ocean Heat
- Ice front and flow speed variations of marine-terminating outlet glaciers along the coast of Prudhoe Land, northwestern Greenland
- Iceberg in front of 'Hart Glacier'. Inglefield Bredening. Northwest Greenland.