Sermitsiaq Glacier is a tidewater
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 the
Qeqqata
Qeqqata (, ) is a municipality in western Greenland, operational from 1 January 2009. The municipality was named after its location in the central-western part of the country. Its population is 9,378 as of January 2020. The administrative cente ...
municipality in western
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 ...
. It drains
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 ...
into two fjords flowing towards
Davis Strait
The Davis Strait (Danish language, Danish: ''Davisstrædet'') is a southern arm of the Arctic Ocean that lies north of the Labrador Sea. It lies between mid-western Greenland and Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada. To the north is Baffin Bay. The ...
:
Kangaamiut Kangerluarsuat Fjord
Kangaamiut Kangerluarsuat Fjord (old spelling: ''Kangâmiut Kangerdluarssuat'') is a fjord in the Qeqqata municipality in western Greenland. The fjord is located halfway between the lower runs of the long Kangerlussuaq Fjord in the north, and Ka ...
in the north, and the longer
Kangerlussuatsiaq Fjord
Kangerlussuatsiaq Fjord (old spelling: ''Kangerdlugssuatsiaq'', ) is a fjord in the Qeqqata municipality in western Greenland. Taking its source in the tidewater glaciers draining the Maniitsoq ice cap, the fjord flows in a deep canyon through ...
in the south.
[''Maniitsoq'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992]
See also
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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), ...
References
External links
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Glaciers of Greenland
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