Hamberg Glacier () is one of the major

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s in

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, Northeast

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. Administratively it lies in the

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zone. The area where the glacier flows is remote and uninhabited.

History

This glacier was first mapped in 1932 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 ...

during the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland. It was named after Swedish mineralogist, geographer and

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Axel Hamberg Axel Hamberg (17 January 1863 – 28 June 1933) was a Swedish mineralogist, geographer and explorer. Biography Hamberg was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He was the son of Nils Peter Hamberg (1815-1902) and Emma Augusta Christina Härnström (18 ...

(1863–1933).

Geography

The Hamberg Glacier flows from the eastern side of the

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in the west and swings to the NE to join Gerard de Geer Glacier. To the northwest of the bend lies J. L. Mowinckel Land. To the SE the glacier has a branch joining the Jaette Glacier. The Evers Glacier flows about to the north and the Victor Madsen Glacier about to the southeast. Louise Boyd Land lies to the east of the eastern section of the glacier and Fraenkel Land further to the southeast. There is a small region of

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s off the upper western section of the glacier.A. K. Higgins, Jane A. Gilotti, M. Paul Smith (eds.), ''The Greenland Caledonides: Evolution of the Northeast Margin of Laurentia''

References

External links

GNET GPS Station Hamberg Gletscher , IsaaffikNortheast Greenland, Louise Boyd Land, First Ascents - 2003
Glaciers of Greenland {{Greenland-glacier-stub

History

Geography

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