Maniitsoq Ice Cap (old spelling: ''Manîtsoq'', da, Sukkertoppen iskappe or ''Sukkertoppen isflade'') is a
ice cap in the
Qeqqata
Qeqqata (, da, Centrum, lit=Centre) is a municipality in western Greenland, operational from 1 January 2009. The municipality was named after its location in the central-western part of the country. Its population is 9,378 as of January 2020. Th ...
municipality in western
Greenland
Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland i ...
.
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 and .
[ Google Earth] The maximum height is marked as a high summit in the
Defense Mapping Agency
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Greenland Navigation charts, although it does not rise above .
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
Kangerlussuaq Fjord (old spelling: ''Kangerdlugssuaq'', da, Søndre Strømfjord) is a long fjord in the Qeqqata municipality in central-western Greenland. The fjord is long and between and wide, flowing from the estuary of Qinnguata Kuussua r ...
.
[''Maniitsoq'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992] To the northeast of the ice sheet lies the wide highland of Angujaartorfiup Nunaa, home to herds of
muskox
The muskox (''Ovibos moschatus'', in Latin "musky sheep-ox"), also spelled musk ox and musk-ox, plural muskoxen or musk oxen (in iu, ᐅᒥᖕᒪᒃ, umingmak; in Woods Cree: ), is a hoofed mammal of the family Bovidae. Native to the Arctic, ...
en, originally reintroduced in its northern part from the populations of the
Northeast Greenland National Park.
See also
*
List of glaciers in Greenland
This is a list of glaciers in Greenland. Details on the size and flow of some of the major Greenlandic glaciers are listed by Eric Rignot and Pannir Kanagaratnam (2006)
Ice sheets and caps
*Greenland Ice Sheet
* Christian Erichsen Ice Cap
*Flad ...
References
External links
*{{commonscat inline, Maniitsoq ice cap
Sukkertoppen, Greenland - Peakbagger
Ice caps of Greenland
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