Academy Glacier (NW Greenland)
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| Academy Glacier | |
|---|---|
| Academy Gletscher | |
  Location within Greenland | |
| Type | Piedmont glacier |
| Location | Greenland |
| Coordinates | 77°14′N 65°26′W / 77.233°N 65.433°W |
| Terminus | Leidy Glacier; Academy Fjord Inglefield Fjord |
Academy Glacier (Danish: Academy Gletscher), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland.[1] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.
The glacier was named by Robert Peary after the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.
Geography
The Academy Glacier is located inland and discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet into the Leidy Glacier which bifurcates and has its terminus in the Academy Fjord, as well as in the Olrik Fjord as the smaller Marie Glacier.[2][1]
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See also
References
- ^ a b "Academy Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ^ Greenland’s Leidy Glacier; NASA Earth Observatory
External links
- The recent regimen of the ice cap margin in North Greenland Archived 2021-06-25 at the Wayback Machine
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