Frederiksborg Glacier () is a
glacier
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on the east coast of the
Greenland ice sheet
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.
It is named after
Frederiksborg Castle
Frederiksborg Castle () is a palatial complex in Hillerød, Denmark. It was built as a royal residence for Christian IV of Denmark, King Christian IV of Denmark-Norway in the early 17th century, replacing an older castle acquired by Frederick II ...
in
Denmark
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.
Administratively this glacier is part of the
Sermersooq
Sermersooq () is a municipality in Greenland, formed on 1 January 2009 from five previous, smaller municipalities. Its administrative seat is the city of Nuuk (formerly called Godthåb), the capital of Greenland, and it is the most populous ...
Municipality.
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History
In 1935–36, during the
British East Greenland Expedition led by geologist
Lawrence Wager
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, E. C. Chambers and Dr. P. B. Fountaine set up walking up the glacier on an exploratory journey but had to turn back because it was too badly
crevasse
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d.
British East Greenland Expedition, 1935–36
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Geography
The Frederiksborg Glacier is a valley glacier
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that flows between high and rugged mountainous areas in a roughly north–south direction. It separates the Lemon Range in the west from the mountains that rise to the west of the Sorgenfri Glacier in the east.Actress
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, the highest peak of the Lemon Range. Its terminus is at the head of the Watkins Fjord, one of the branches of the great Kangerlussuaq Fjord
Kangerlussuaq Fjord (old spelling: ''Kangerdlugssuaq'', ) 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 river to the southwest, ...
system of the East Greenland coast.[''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 109]
To the north of the Frederiksborg Glacier, there is the Upper Frederiksborg Glacier ''(Øvre Frederiksborg Gletscher)'', 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 ...
west of which lie the Frederiksborg Nunataks located east of the Lindbergh Range
The Lindbergh Range or Lindbergh Nunataks ( or ''Lindbergh Nunatakker'') is a mountain range in King Christian IX Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively the range is part of the Sermersooq Municipality.
History
The range was observed and map ...
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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), ...
Further reading
*''The American Alpine Journal,'' Climbs and Expeditions 1988, p. 165
References
External links
The Kangerdlugssuak Region of East GreenlandAmerican Alpine Club - Exploring Greenland's Lemon Bjerge
Glaciers of Greenland
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