Hubbard Glacier (Greenland)
Hubbard Glacier (Danish: Hubbard Gletscher), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland.[2] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.
| Hubbard Glacier | |
|---|---|
| Hubbard Gletscher Hubbard Bræ | |
  Location within Greenland | |
| Type | Valley glacier |
| Location | Greenland |
| Coordinates | 77°33′N 67°45′W |
| Width | 3.5 km (2.2 mi) |
| Terminus | Inglefield Fjord Baffin Bay |
| Status | Retreating[1] |
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 terminus in the northern shore of the mid Inglefield Fjord. It discharges from the margins of the 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]
 Map of Northwestern Greenland |
.jpg) 19th century map of the Inglefield Gulf. |
Bibliography
See also
- List of glaciers in Greenland
- Inglefield Fjord
References
- The recent regimen of the ice cap margin in North Greenland
- "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
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