Flade Isblink is an

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 topogra ...

on the

Crown Prince Christian Land Crown Prince Christian Land () is a large peninsula in northern Greenland. It is a part of King Frederick VIII Land and administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park. It was named after Crown Prince Christian, later Christia ...

peninsula,

King Frederick VIII Land King Frederik VIII Land (; ) is a major geographic division of northeastern Greenland. It extends above the Arctic Circle from 76°N to 81°N in a North-South direction along the coast of the Greenland Sea. History This vast desolate region ...

, NE

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 ...

Station Nord Station Nord is a military and scientific station in northeastern Greenland 1700 km north of the Arctic Circle. It is about from the geographic North Pole, on Princess Ingeborg Peninsula () in northern Kronprins Christian Land, making i ...

, the only inhabited place in the region, lies to the northwest, off the ice cap area.

History

The Flade Isblink was named by

Lauge Koch Lauge Koch (5 July 1892 – 5 June 1964) was a Danish geologist and Arctic explorer. Biography Lauge Koch was born in 1892 to Karl and Elisabeth Koch. His development as a scientist was greatly influenced by his father's second cousin Johan Peter ...

in 1933. He was the first to map the area in the course of survey flights during the 1931–34 Three-year expedition to East Greenland.''Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland'', Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland

Geography

This large and flat ice cap is separated from 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 ...

and is the largest independent ice cap in Greenland. It is located between the

Wandel Sea The Wandel Sea (; also known as McKinley Sea) is a body of water in the Greenland Sea, stretching from northeast of Greenland to Svalbard. It is obstructed by ice most of the year. This sea is named after Danish polar explorer and hydrographer, ...

to the north and Amdrup Land and Antarctic Bay to the south.

Romer Lake Romer Lake () is a land-locked freshwater fjord at the northern end of King Frederick VIII Land, near Greenland's northeastern coast. The Danish military base/weather station Nord —the only inhabited place in the area— lies to the northeast ...

and the

Princess Elizabeth Alps The Princess Elizabeth Alps () is a mountain range in King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. The range was named by Eigil Nielsen during the 1938–39 ...

extend southwestwards at the western end and to the east lies the

Fram Strait The Fram Strait is the passage between Greenland and Svalbard, located roughly between 77th parallel north, 77°N and 81st parallel north, 81°N latitudes and centered on the prime meridian. The Greenland Sea, Greenland and Norwegian Seas lie sou ...

and the

Greenland Sea The Greenland Sea ( Danish: ''Grønlandshavet'') is a body of water that borders Greenland to the west, the Svalbard archipelago to the east, Fram Strait and the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Norwegian Sea and Iceland to the south. The Gre ...

. The ice cap covers most of the northern part of Crown Prince Christian Land and is about in area. The underlying bedrock is roughly above sea level. The Flade Isblink has two

ice dome Glacier morphology, or the form a glacier takes, is influenced by temperature, precipitation, topography, and other factors. The goal of glacial morphology is to gain a better understanding of glaciated landscapes and the way they are shaped. T ...

s, the North Dome and the larger South Dome. Kilen is a roughly triangular stretch of unglaciated flat land in the eastern shore with its apex in the ice cap between the two domes.InSAR observations of ice elevation and velocity fluctuations at the Flade Isblink ice cap, eastern North Greenland
/ref> The northern section of the ice cap is drained by two

outlet glacier Glacier morphology, or the form a glacier takes, is influenced by temperature, precipitation, topography, and other factors. The goal of glacial morphology is to gain a better understanding of glaciated landscapes and the way they are shaped. T ...

s flowing in a roughly northwestern direction. The northeastern corner of Greenland,

Nordostrundingen Nordostrundingen (, Northeastern rounding, in English Northeast Foreland), is a headland located at the northeastern end of Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. This headland was named by the Denmark e ...

, extends into the sea at the eastern end.A study of the Flade Isblink ice cap using a simple ice flow model
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A Mitten Materializes in Greenland - NASAInvestigating the unusual dynamics of the Flade Isblink Ice Cap, NE Greenland
Ice caps of Greenland

History

Geography

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