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| Nordenskiold Glacier | |
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| Nordenskiöld Gletscher | |
 Photograph of Nordenskiold Glacier by the US Coast Guard. | |
  Location within Greenland | |
| Type | Tidewater glacier |
| Location | Greenland |
| Coordinates | 75°48′N 59°0′W / 75.800°N 59.000°W |
| Terminus | Melville Bay |
Nordenskiold Glacier (Danish: Nordenskiöld Gletscher), is a large glacier in the Avannaata Municipality, on the northwestern coast of Greenland.
Geography
[edit]This glacier is located in the Lauge Koch Coast of Melville Bay, north of the Upernavik Archipelago. It drains the Greenland ice sheet (Greenlandic: Sermersuaq) and flows southwestwards between the King Oscar Glacier to the northwest and the Sverdrup Glacier to the southeast.[1]
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Nordenskiöld Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
External links
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