Hubbard Glacier (), is a

glacier A glacier (; or ) is a persistent body of dense ice, a form of rock, that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires ...

in northwestern

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. Administratively it belongs to the

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municipality. This glacier was named by

Robert Peary Robert Edwin Peary Sr. (; May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) was an American explorer and officer in the United States Navy who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was long credited as being ...

after

Gardiner Greene Hubbard Gardiner Greene Hubbard (August 25, 1822 – December 11, 1897) was an American lawyer, financier, and community leader. He was a founder and first president of the National Geographic Society; a founder and the first president of the Bell Teleph ...

(1822 – 1897), founder and first president of the

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.Robert Neff Keely, Gwilym George Davis, ''In Arctic Seas: the Voyage of the Kite with the Peary Expedition,'' 2011 p. 373

Geography

The Hubbard Glacier has its terminus in the northern shore of the mid Inglefield Fjord. It discharges from the margins of the

Greenland Ice Sheet The Greenland ice sheet is an ice sheet which forms the second largest body of ice in the world. It is an average of thick and over thick at its maximum. It is almost long in a north–south direction, with a maximum width of at a latitude ...

in Prudhoe Land, flowing roughly from north to south. In the same manner as most neighboring glaciers, it has retreated by approximately in recent years.

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Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Map Series 2Deeply incised submarine glacial valleys beneath the Greenland ice

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Glacier fluctuations and dynamics around the margin of the Greenland Ice SheetIdentifying Spatial Variability in Greenland's Outlet Glacier Response to Ocean HeatRecent ice mass loss in northwestern Greenland
Glaciers of Greenland {{Greenland-glacier-stub

Geography

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