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Hans Tausen Ice Cap
Hans Tausen Ice Cap () is an ice cap in Peary Land, northern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. Age Ice cores show it is around 3500–4000 years old. It formed since the Holocene climatic optimum of 6000-8000 BP. It is a well studied ice cap, and is important to understanding the Holocene climatic optimum. Geography The ice cap is located south of Amundsen Land and the Nordpasset, at the western end of the De Long Fjord area, east of Freuchen Land across the inner J.P. Koch Fjord, west of Odin Fjord and south of the O.B. Bøggild Fjord.GoogleEarth It is about from north to south and from east to west and sits on a high plateau. The Hans Tausen Ice Cap is the source of many glaciers, including the Ymer Glacier to the east, the Aajaku Glacier, Inukitsaq Glacier and Persuaq Glacier to the west, and the Lur Glacier and Tjalfe Glacier to the north. See also *List of glaciers in Greenland This is a list of glacie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ice Cap
In glaciology, an ice cap is a mass of ice that covers less than of land area (usually covering a highland area). Larger ice masses covering more than are termed ice sheets. Description By definition, ice caps are not constrained by topographical features (i.e., they must lie over the top of mountains). By contrast, ice masses of similar size that ''are'' constrained by topographical features are known as ice fields. The ''dome'' of an ice cap is usually centred on the highest point of a massif. Ice flows away from this high point (the ice divide) towards the ice cap's periphery. Ice caps significantly affect the geomorphology of the area they occupy. Plastic moulding, gouging and other glacial erosional features become present upon the glacier's retreat. Many lakes, such as the Great Lakes in North America, as well as numerous valleys have been formed by glacial action over hundreds of thousands of years. The Antarctic and Greenland contain 99% of the ice volume on earth, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GoogleEarth
Google Earth is a web mapping, web and computer program created by Google that renders a 3D computer graphics, 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery. The program maps the Earth by superimposition, superimposing satellite images, aerial photography, and geographic information system, GIS data onto a 3D globe, allowing users to see cities and landscapes from various angles. Users can explore the globe by entering addresses and coordinates, or by using a Computer keyboard, keyboard or computer mouse, mouse. The program can also be downloaded on a smartphone or Tablet computer, tablet, using a touch screen or stylus to navigate. Users may use the program to add their own data using Keyhole Markup Language and upload them through various sources, such as forums or blogs. Google Earth is able to show various kinds of images overlaid on the surface of the Earth and is also a Web Map Service client. In 2019, Google revealed that Google Earth covers more than 97 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ice Caps Of Greenland
Ice is water that is frozen into a solid state, typically forming at or below temperatures of 0 ° C, 32 ° F, or 273.15 K. It occurs naturally on Earth, on other planets, in Oort cloud objects, and as interstellar ice. As a naturally occurring crystalline inorganic solid with an ordered structure, ice is considered to be a mineral. Depending on the presence of impurities such as particles of soil or bubbles of air, it can appear transparent or a more or less opaque bluish-white color. Virtually all of the ice on Earth is of a hexagonal crystalline structure denoted as ''ice Ih'' (spoken as "ice one h"). Depending on temperature and pressure, at least nineteen phases ( packing geometries) can exist. The most common phase transition to ice Ih occurs when liquid water is cooled below (, ) at standard atmospheric pressure. When water is cooled rapidly (quenching), up to three types of amorphous ice can form. Interstellar ice is overwhelmingly low-density amorphous ice (LDA), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 *Ad Astra Ice Cap (Greenland), Ad Astra Ice Cap *Christian Erichsen Ice Cap *Flade Isblink *Geikie Plateau *Gungner Ice Cap *Hans Tausen Ice Cap *Heimdal Ice Cap *Hurlbut Glacier *Ismarken *Mælkevejen *Maniitsoq Ice Cap (Sukkertoppen) *Storm Ice Cap *Upper Frederiksborg Glacier Other glaciers *A. Harmsworth Glacier *Aage Bertelsen Glacier *Academy Glacier (Greenland), Academy Glacier, N *Academy Glacier (NW Greenland), Academy Glacier, NW *Admiralty Glacier *Adolf Hoel Glacier *Akuliarutsip Sermerssua *Amdrup Glacier *Apusiaajik Glacier *Balder Glacier *Bernstorff Glacier *Borgjokel *Bowdoin Glacier *Bredebræ *Britannia Glacier *Bruckner Glacier *C. H. Ostenfeld Glacier *Chamberlin Glacier (Greenland), Chamberlin Glacier *Christian IV Glacier *Copeland Glacier (Past ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lur Glacier
A lur, also lure or lurr, is a long natural horn without finger holes that is played with a brass-type embouchure. Lurs can be straight or curved in various shapes. The purpose of the curves was to make long instruments easier to carry (e.g. for marching, like the modern sousaphone) and to avoid directing the loud noise at nearby people. The name lur is used for two distinct types of ancient wind instruments. The more recent type is made of wood and was in use in Scandinavia during the Middle Ages. The older type, named after the more recent type, is made of bronze, dates to the Bronze Age and was often found in pairs, deposited in bogs, mainly in Denmark and Germany. It consists of a mouthpiece and several pieces and/or pipes. Its length can reach between 1.5 and 2 metres. It has been found in Norway, Denmark, South Sweden, and Northern Germany. Illustrations of lurs have also been found on several rock paintings in Scandinavia. Wooden lurs The earliest references to an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ymer Glacier
Ymer can mean: * Ymer (dairy product), a Danish soured milk product * ''Ymer'' (1976 icebreaker), a Swedish icebreaker * Ymer, the first modern housing cooperative in Uppsala, Sweden * ''Ymer'' (journal), a Swedish yearbook on geography published since 1881 * Ymer Island, East Greenland * Ymer Nunatak, Northeast Greenland * Ymerbukta, Svalbard People Given name *Ymer Dishnica (1912−1998), Albanian politician and physician *Ymer Pampuri (1944–2017), Albanian weightlifter *Ymer Prizreni (c. 1820−1887), Albanian politician and diplomat *Ymer Shaba (born 1998), Albanian footballer *Ymer Xhaferi (born 1985), Kosovar footballer Surname *Mikael Ymer (born 1998), Ethiopian tennis player representing Sweden. *Elias Ymer (born 1996), Ethiopian tennis player representing Sweden. See also: * Ymir In Norse mythology, Ymir (), also called Aurgelmir, Brimir, or Bláinn, is the ancestor of all jötnar. Ymir is attested in the ''Poetic Edda'', compiled in the 13th century fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odin Fjord
Odin Fjord () is a fjord in Peary Land, far northern Greenland.Google Maps Robert Peary did not explore the Frederick E. Hyde Fjord owing to thick fog at its mouth. The inner fjord branches were mapped and named by Lauge Koch in the course of aerial surveys from the 1920s onwards.Spencer Apollonio, ''Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland,'' 2008 p. 101 Geography Odin Fjord is an offshoot on the southern shore of Frederick E. Hyde Fjord, located close to its head, west of Cape John Flagler at the fjord entrance. Thor Fjord has its mouth to the east on the same side. The fjord is roughly oriented in a north–south direction and is nearly in length.''Sailing Directions for East Greenland and Iceland'', p. 182 Flowing northwards to the east of the Hans Tausen Ice Cap, the Ymer Glacier discharges at the head of the fjord. To the east of Odin Fjord lies the Heimdal Ice Cap.J. C. Escher & Poul-Henrik Larsen, ''The buried western extension of the Navarana Fjord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenland
Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. It is by far the largest geographically of three constituent parts of the kingdom; the other two are metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenland are full Danish nationality law, citizens of Denmark and European Union citizenship, of the European Union. Greenland is one of the Special territories of members of the European Economic Area#Overseas countries and territories, Overseas Countries and Territories of the European Union and is part of the Council of Europe. It is the List of islands by area, world's largest island, and lies between the Arctic Ocean, Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Arctic Archipelago, Canadian Arctic Archipelago. It is the location of the northernmost point of land in the world; Kaffeklubben Island off the northern coast is the world's Northernmost point of land, northernmost undisputed point of land—Cape Morris Jesup on the mainland was thought to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
