This is a list of glaciers in Greenland. Details on the size and flow of some of the major

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 ...

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 are listed by Eric Rignot and Pannir Kanagaratnam (2006)

Ice sheets and caps

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 ...

* Ad Astra Ice Cap * Christian Erichsen Ice Cap * Flade Isblink * Geikie Plateau * Gungner Ice Cap *

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 ...

* Heimdal Ice Cap * Hurlbut Glacier * Ismarken * Mælkevejen *

Maniitsoq Ice Cap Maniitsoq Ice Cap (old spelling: ''Manîtsoq'', or ''Sukkertoppen isflade'') is a ice cap in the Qeqqata municipality in western Greenland. Geography There are no settlements in the vicinity of the ice cap. In the southeast, Maniitsoq ice c ...

(Sukkertoppen) * Storm Ice Cap * Upper Frederiksborg Glacier

Other glaciers

* A. Harmsworth Glacier *

Aage Bertelsen Glacier Bertelsen Glacier () is a glacier in northern Greenland.Google Earth Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park. Between 2006 and 2010 there was an automatic weather station near the glacier. The glacier was mapped with ...

* Academy Glacier, N * Academy Glacier, NW *

Admiralty Glacier Admiralty Glacier () is a glacier in Queen Louise Land, northeastern Greenland.Google Earth Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park. History The glacier was mapped during the 1952–54 British North Greenland exped ...

* Adolf Hoel Glacier * Akuliarutsip Sermerssua * Amdrup Glacier * Apusiaajik Glacier * Balder Glacier * Bernstorff Glacier * Borgjokel *

Bowdoin Glacier Bowdoin Glacier ( or ''Bowdoin Brae''), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality. Like the fjord further south, this glacier was named by Robert Peary after Bowdoin College. He described th ...

* Bredebræ *

Britannia Glacier Britannia Glacier () is a glacier in Queen Louise Land, northeastern Greenland.Google Earth Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park. History The glacier was mapped during the 1952–54 British North Greenland exped ...

* Bruckner Glacier * C. H. Ostenfeld Glacier * Chamberlin Glacier * Christian IV Glacier *

Copeland Glacier Copeland or Copeland's may refer to: Places Australia * Copeland, New South Wales Canada * Copeland Islands (Nunavut) * Copeland Islands Marine Provincial Park, in the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia * Mount Copeland, also Copeland Ridg ...

(Pasterze Glacier) * Daugaard-Jensen Glacier * Diebitsch Glacier * Docker Smith Glacier * Dodge Glacier * Ejnar Mikkelsen Glacier * F. Graae Glacier * Fan Glacier *

Farquhar Glacier Farquhar Glacier (), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality. This glacier was named by Robert Peary after Commodore Norman von Heldreich Farquhar, Farquhar (1840 – 1907), Chief of the B ...

Fenris Glacier Fenris Glacier () is a glacier in the Sermersooq municipality, Eastern Greenland. This glacier is named after Fenris (Fenrir), the mighty wolf of Norse mythology. Geography The Fenris Glacier is located on the eastern side of the Greenland ice s ...

* Fimbul Glacier *

Frederiksborg Glacier Frederiksborg Glacier () is a glacier on the east coast of the Greenland ice sheet. It is named after Frederiksborg Castle in Denmark. Administratively this glacier is part of the Sermersooq Municipality.Google Earth History In 1935–36, during ...

* Frederikshåb Glacier *

Gade Glacier Gade may refer to: * Gade - Gade people * Gade (surname) * Gadê County, in Qinghai, China * River Gade, in southern England *"Gade", a song by Croatian singer Severina Vučković * Gade language Gade (Gad) is an independent Gadoid language of N ...

* Garm (glacier) * Gerard de Geer Glacier * Gerd Glacier * Guldfaxe * Gymer Glacier * Hagen Glacier * Hamberg Glacier *

Hann Glacier Hann may refer to: People * Adam Hann-Byrd (born 1982), American actor * Allie Hann-McCurdy (born 1987), Canadian ice dancer * Chris Hann (born 1953), British social anthropologist * David Hann (born 1952), American politician *Della Hann, Americ ...

Hans Glacier Hans may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Hans (name), a masculine given name * Hans Raj Hans, Indian singer and politician ** Navraj Hans, Indian singer, actor, entrepreneur, cricket player and performer, son of Hans Raj Hans ** Yuvraj Hans, Punjabi a ...

Harald Moltke Glacier The Harald Moltke Glacier () is a glacier in Greenland. Geography The Harald Moltke Glacier is located in the far northwest of Greenland, to the north of the Thule Air Base. It is one of four large glaciers which feeds the Wolstenholme Fjord (s ...

* Hart Glacier *

Hayes Glacier Hayes Glacier in Antarctica enters the southeast part of the Weddell Sea about west-southwest of Dawson-Lambton Glacier. It was discovered in the course of a U.S. Navy LC-130 plane flight over the Caird Coast on November 5, 1967, and was pl ...

* Heilprin Glacier *

Heim Glacier Heim Glacier is a glacier long in the southeast part of Arrowsmith Peninsula, which flows south to merge with the ice in Jones Channel on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. With Antevs Glacier to the north, it forms a transverse depres ...

* Heimdal Glacier * Helheim Glacier * Helland Glacier *

Henson Glacier The Wright Ice Piedmont () is an ice piedmont extending westward from Lanchester Bay along the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctica. Location The Wright Ice Piedmont lies on the Davis Coast on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula. It f ...

* Hiawatha Glacier *

Hubbard Glacier __NOTOC__ Hubbard Glacier ( Lingít: ''Sít' Tlein'') is a glacier located in Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve in eastern Alaska and Kluane National Park and Reserve in Yukon, Canada, and named after Gardiner Hubbard. Geograph ...

Humboldt Glacier Humboldt Glacier () is one of the major glaciers in northern Greenland. The glacier is named after German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt and is the widest tidewater glacier in the Northern Hemisphere. Geography The Humboldt Glacier borders ...

* Hutchinson Glacier * Igdlugdlip Glacier *

Ikertivaq Glacier Ikertivaq, also known as Ikersuaq or Ikerssuaq, is a bay or fjord in Sermersooq municipality, southeastern Greenland.GoogleEarth Tundra climate prevails in the area of the fjord, the average annual temperature in the area being -8 °C . The ...

* Ingia Glacier * J.P. Koch Glacier * Jætte Glacier * Jakobshavn Isbræ *

Kangerlussuaq Glacier Kangerlussuaq Glacier (, meaning 'large fjord'; old spelling ''Kangerdlugssuaq'') is the largest glacier on the east coast of the Greenland ice sheet. It flows into the head of the Kangerlussuaq Fjord, the second largest fjord in East Greenland. ...

* Kangerdlugssup Glacier * Kangerdluarssup Sermia * Kangiata Nunata Sermia * Karale Glacier * Knud Rasmussen Glacier * King Oscar Glacier * Kjer Glacier * K.J.V. Steenstrup Glacier * Kofoed-Hansen Glacier * Kronborg Glacier * L. Bistrup Bræ Glacier * Leidy Glacier * Lille Glacier *

Marie Sophie Glacier Marie may refer to the following. People Given name * Marie (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name ** List of people named Marie * Marie (Japanese given name) Surname * Jean Gabriel-Marie, French compose ...

* Melville Glacier * Midgard Glacier *

Mittivakkat Glacier The Mittivakkat Glacier is located in southeast Greenland, and is part of the largest ice field on Ammassalik Island. This glacier has been in retreat (negative net mass balance) throughout most of recorded history (1898–2008). The ice mass, w ...

* Mohn Glacier * Moore Glacier * Morris Jesup Glacier * Nansen Glacier * Nioghalvfjerdsbræ * Nordenskiöld Glacier NW * Nordenskiöld Glacier W * Nunatak Glacier * Nunatakavsaup Glacier * Nunatakassaap Sermia * Nyeboe Glacier *

Peary Glacier Peary Glacier (), is a glacier in north west Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality. This glacier was named after US Arctic explorer Robert Peary (1856 - 1920). Geography The Peary Glacier is located in the Lauge K ...

* Perdlerfiup Sermia *

Petermann Glacier Petermann Glacier () is a large glacier located in North-West Greenland to the east of Nares Strait. It connects the Greenland ice sheet to the Arctic Ocean at 81°10' north latitude, near Hans Island. The glacier and its fjord are named after Ge ...

* Puisortoq * Raven Glacier * Rimfaxe *

Rink Glacier Rink Glacier (; ) is a glacier in Avannaata, Greenland. This glacier is named in honor of Hinrich Johannes Rink, Danish geologist and Greenlandic researcher. Geography The Rink Glacier is the largest glacier on the west coast of Greenland. It ...

Rink Glacier (Melville Bay) Rink Glacier (), is a glacier in NW Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality. This glacier was named after Danish geologist and explorer of Greenland Hinrich Johannes Rink (1819 - 1893). Geography The Rink Glacier i ...

* Rosenborg Glacier * Russell Glacier *

Ryder Glacier Ryder Glacier is a gently sloping glacier, 13 nautical miles (24 km) long and wide, flowing west from the Dyer Plateau of Palmer Land into George VI Sound to the south of Gurney Point. First surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Exped ...

* Salisbury Glacier * Scarlet Heart Glacier * Sermeq Avannarleq near Ilulissat * Sermeq Avannarleq in Uummannaq District * Sermeq Silardleq * Sermilik Qagssimiut * Sermitsiaq Glacier *

Sharp Glacier Sharp Glacier is a glacier flowing north to the head of Lallemand Fjord, close east of the Boyle Mountains, in Graham Land. Mapped by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey The Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) ...

* Sif Glacier * Skinfaxe *

Sleipner Glacier Sleipner Glacier (), is a glacier in eastern Greenland. This glacier was named after Sleipner, Odin's mythical eight-legged flying horse. Geography The Sleipner Glacier originates in central Odinland, a heavily glaciated peninsula. It flows ...

Spalte Glacier The Spalte Glacier was a large floating glacier located in Crown Prince Christian Land, northeastern Greenland. The glacier broke up and completely disintegrated in July 2020. Geography The glacier was a northern offshoot of the Nioghalvfjerdsbr ...

* Steensby Glacier * Steenstrup Glacier * Storstrømmen Glacier * Store Glacier * Storebjørn Glacier * Sun Glacier * Sverdrup Glacier *

Thomas Glacier Thomas Glacier () is a roughly Z-shaped glacier which drains the southeast slopes of Vinson Massif and flows for 17 nautical miles (31 km) through the south part of the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains, leaving the range between Doyra ...

* Tingmjarmiut * Tjalfe Glacier (SE Greenland) * Tjalfe Glacier *

Tjasse Glacier Tjasse (Den grønlandske Lods – Geodatastyrelsen

* Tracy Glacier * Upernavik Isstrøm * Umiamako Glacier * Verhoeff Glacier * Vibeke Glacier * Waltershausen Glacier * Wordie Glacier * Ydun Glacier *

Ygdrasil Yggdrasil () is an immense and central sacred tree in Norse cosmology. Around it exists all else, including the Nine Worlds. Yggdrasil is attested in the ''Poetic Edda'' compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and in the ...

* Ymer Glacier * Zachariæ Isstrøm

Firns

* Daniel Bruun Firn * Dreyer Firn *

Rink Firn Rink may refer to: * Ice rink, a surface of ice used for ice skating ** Figure skating rink, an ice rink designed for figure skating ** Ice hockey rink, an ice rink designed for ice hockey ** Speed skating rink, an ice rink designed for speed skat ...

Sven Hedin Firn Sven is a Scandinavian masculine first name. In Old Norse the meaning was "young man" or "servant" and the original Old Norse spelling was ''sveinn''. Variants such as '' Svend'' are found in Danish and Norwegian. Another variant, ''Svein'' i ...

''Sven Hedin Firn'',

Army Map Service The Army Map Service (AMS) was the military cartography, cartographic agency of the United States Department of Defense from 1941 to 1968, subordinated to the United States Army Corps of Engineers. On September 1, 1968, the AMS was redesignated th ...

United States Army Corps of Engineers The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is the military engineering branch of the United States Army. A direct reporting unit (DRU), it has three primary mission areas: Engineer Regiment, military construction, and civil wo ...

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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 ...

Glaciers 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 ...

Ice sheets and caps

Other glaciers

Firns

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