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Morris Jesup Glacier (, is a
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 ...
in northwestern
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 ...
.Geographical Names - A.P. Bernstorf Gletscher: Greenland
/ref> Administratively it belongs to the
Avannaata Avannaata (, ) is a municipality of Greenland created on 1 January 2018 from the bulk of the former Qaasuitsup municipality. It encompasses an area of 522,700 km2 and has 10,726 inhabitants. Geography In the south, Avannaata is flanked ...
municipality. This 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 American industrialist-philanthropist Morris K. Jesup, president of the
Peary Arctic Club The Peary Arctic Club was an American-based Club (organization), club with the goal of promoting the Arctic expeditions of Robert Peary (1856–1920). This association of influential persons was able to overcome the opposition of the U.S. Nav ...
, who helped finance Peary's expeditions.


Geography

The Morris Jesup Glacier discharges 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 ...
at the head of an unnamed fjord located just to the north of Cape Robertson in the
Smith Sound Smith Sound (; ) is an Arctic sea passage between 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 ...
area.T. C. Chamberlin, ''Glacial Studies in Greenland.'' The Journal of Geology Vol. 5, No. 3 (Apr. - May, 1897), pp. 229-240. Published by: The University of Chicago Press
/ref> The glacier flows roughly from NE to SW.The recent regimen of the ice cap margin in North Greenland
/ref> The Diebitsch Glacier is located to the northwest, beyond Cape Saumarez, and
Siorapaluup Kangerlua Siorapaluup Kangerlua, also known as Robertson Fjord and Robertson Bay, is a fjord in northern Greenland. To the southwest, the fjord opens into the Murchison Sound of the Baffin Bay.GoogleEarth Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata munici ...
to the southeast, around Cape Robertson.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute,'' p. 90


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), ...


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Earthquake Archive: past quakes in or near Morris Jesup GletscherIdentifying Spatial Variability in Greenland's Outlet Glacier Response to Ocean HeatSeasonal ice-speed variations in 10 marine-terminating outlet glaciers along the coast of Prudhoe Land, northwestern Greenland
Glaciers of Greenland {{Greenland-glacier-stub