Hubbard Glacier (Greenland)
| Hubbard Glacier | |
|---|---|
| Hubbard Gletscher Hubbard Bræ | |
Inglefield Fjord Baffin Bay | |
| Status | Retreating[1] |
Hubbard Glacier (Danish: Hubbard Gletscher), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland.[2] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.
This glacier was named by Robert Peary after Gardiner Greene Hubbard (1822 – 1897), founder and first president of the American Geographical Society.[3]
Geography
The Hubbard Glacier has its
Greenland Ice Sheet in Prudhoe Land, flowing roughly from north to south.[2]
In the same manner as most neighboring glaciers, it has retreated by approximately 0.75 km (0.47 mi) in recent years.[1]
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Bibliography
- Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Map Series 2
- Deeply incised submarine glacial valleys beneath the Greenland ice
See also
- List of glaciers in Greenland
- Inglefield Fjord
References
- ^ a b The recent regimen of the ice cap margin in North Greenland
- ^ a b "Hubbard Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
- ^ Robert Neff Keely, Gwilym George Davis, In Arctic Seas: the Voyage of the Kite with the Peary Expedition, 2011 p. 373
External links
- Glacier fluctuations and dynamics around the margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet
- Identifying Spatial Variability in Greenland's Outlet Glacier Response to Ocean Heat
- Recent ice mass loss in northwestern Greenland
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