Moore Glacier () is a
glacier
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in northern
Greenland
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.
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Administratively it belongs to the
Northeast Greenland National Park
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. Between 2006 and 2010 there was an
automatic weather station
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in the glacier.
The glacier was named by
Robert Peary
Robert Edwin Peary Sr. (; May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) was an American explorer and officer in the United States Navy who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was long credited as being ...
after Mr. Charles Moore, who convinced US President
William McKinley
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to keep supporting Peary's Polar ventures in the face of the
United States Department of the Navy
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opposing further explorations.
Geography
The Moore Glacier is the largest of the valley glaciers located in the area of the easternmost subranges of the
Roosevelt Range
The Roosevelt Range or Roosevelt Mountains () is a mountain range in Northern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. Its highest peak is the highest point in Peary Land.
Located about from the N ...
. It flows roughly in a northwestern direction from the southeast and stretches between the
H. H. Benedict Range to the southwest and the
Bertelsen Glacier to the northeast.
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The Moore Glacier has its terminus
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at the head of the southeastern shore of Bliss Bay
Bliss Bay () is a bay in the Wandel Sea, Northern Greenland. The area of the bay is uninhabited. Administratively Bliss Bay and its surroundings belong to the Northeast Greenland National Park.
Bliss Bay is clogged by fast ice year round. Formerl ...
, which is permanently clogged with ice. The Stjernebannertinde, highest peak of the H. H. Benedict Range, rises above the left side of the glacier to a height of .[1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart; Sheet A-5](_blank)
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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), ...
*Peary Land
Peary Land is a peninsula in northern Greenland, extending into the Arctic Ocean. It reaches from Victoria Fjord in the west to Independence Fjord in the south and southeast, and to the Arctic Ocean in the north, with Cape Morris Jesup, the nor ...
References
External links
Ice-marginal processes, sediments and landforms at Moore Glacier, northernmost GreenlandManliness and Exploration: The Discovery of the North Pole
Glaciers of Greenland
Roosevelt Range
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