Rink Glacier
Rink Gletscher
Map showing the location of Rink Glacier
Map showing the location of Rink Glacier
Location within Greenland
TypeTidewater glacier
LocationNW Greenland
Coordinates76°12′N 61°9′W / 76.200°N 61.150°W / 76.200; -61.150
Width6 km (3.7 mi)
TerminusMelville Bay
StatusRetreating[1]

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

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]

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
  4. GoogleEarth
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