Sharp 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
Greenland
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.
Administratively it belongs to the
Avannaata municipality.
This glacier was named by
Robert Peary after
Benjamin Sharp (1858 – 1915), zoologist of the
Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences who took part in the
Peary expedition to Greenland of 1891-1892.
[Robert Neff Keely, Gwilym George Davis, ''In Arctic Seas: the Voyage of the Kite with the Peary Expedition,'' 2011 p. 373]
Geography
The Sharp Glacier discharges from the
Greenland Ice Sheet and has its
terminus in the northern side of the head of the
Inglefield Fjord, NNW of
Josephine Peary Island. Its last stretch lies between two
nunatak
A nunatak (from Inuit language, Inuit ) is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge. They often form natural pyramidal peaks. Isolated nunataks are also cal ...
s:
Mount Endicott in the western side, separating it from the
Hart Glacier to the west. and
Mount Asserson in the eastern side, separating it from the
Melville Glacier to the east.
The Sharp Glacier flows roughly from north to south. In the same manner as its neighboring glaciers, it has retreated by approximately in the period between the 1980s and 2014.
[The recent regimen of the ice cap margin in North Greenland](_blank)
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See also
* List of glaciers in Greenland
* Inglefield Fjord
References
External links
Identifying Spatial Variability in Greenland's Outlet Glacier Response to Ocean HeatIce front and flow speed variations of marine-terminating outlet glaciers along the coast of Prudhoe Land, northwestern Greenland
Glaciers of Greenland
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