Adolf Hoel Glacier (), also known as Hoel Glacier ''(Hoels Gletscher)'',
is one of the major
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 ...
s in
King Christian X Land
King Christian X Land (; ) is an area of northeastern Greenland.
History
This area was named after King Christian X of Denmark and Iceland (). At the time of the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland, it is reported that, when Lauge Koch w ...
, Northeast
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 Greenlan ...
. Administratively it lies in the
Northeast Greenland National Park
Northeast Greenland National Park (, ) is the world's largest national park and the 10th largest protected area (the only larger protected areas consist mostly of sea). Established in 1974, the Northeast Greenland national park expanded to its p ...
zone.
The area where the glacier flows is remote and uninhabited.
History
This glacier was first mapped in 1931 by the
Høygaard and Mehren expedition. It was named after
Adolf Hoel (1863–1933), Norwegian geologist and chairman of the
Arctic Trading Co.
Geography
The Adolf Hoel Glacier originates in the eastern side 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 ...
around the area of
Hobb Land, with
J. L. Mowinckel Land to the south and
Arnold Escher Land to the north. It is joined by the
Skråbræ from the north. Then it flows along the northern edge of
Andrée Land in a roughly WNW/ESE direction until its terminus in the
Nunatak Glacier to the east.
It has a flow of per year.
The
Eyvind Fjeld Glacier flows to the north and the
Wilkins Nunataks rise to the NW. The
Jakob Kjøde Bjerg, a large high
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 ...
, rises off the northeastern side of the glacier, beyond which flows the
Waltershausen Glacier.
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Bibliography
*A. K. Higgins, Jane A. Gilotti, M. Paul Smith (eds.), ''The Greenland Caledonides: Evolution of the Northeast Margin of Laurentia''.
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
*Ad Astra Ice Cap (Greenland), ...
References
External links
U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, Volume 1386, Part 3
Glaciers of Greenland
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