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Rink Glacier (Melville Bay)

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Rink Glacier
Rink Gletscher
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Location within Greenland
Type Tidewater glacier
LocationNW Greenland
Coordinates 76°12′N61°9′W / 76.200°N 61.150°W / 76.200; -61.150
Width6 km (3.7 mi)
Terminus Melville Bay
StatusRetreating [1]

Rink Glacier (Danish : Rink Gletscher), is a glacier in NW Greenland. [2] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.

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This glacier was named after Danish geologist and explorer of Greenland Hinrich Johannes Rink (1819 - 1893).

Geography

The Rink Glacier is located in the Lauge Koch Coast, Melville Bay. [3] It originates in the western Greenland ice sheet and flows southwestwards between the Døcker Smith Glacier to the west and the Peary Glacier to the east. [2] Its terminus lies ENE of Cape Murdoch, northeast of the Fisher Islands and north of the Balgoni Islands in Melville Bay. [4]

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Map of Northwestern Greenland

See also

References

  1. ↑ Warming, glacier melt and surface energy budget
  2. 1 2 "Rink Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  3. ↑ "Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 20 - GEUS" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-06-20. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
  4. ↑ GoogleEarth


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