| Daugaard-Jensen Glacier | |
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 Photograph of Daugaard-Jensen Glacier taken from a helicopter. | |
  Location within Greenland | |
| Location | Greenland |
| Coordinates | 71°46′N 29°15′W / 71.767°N 29.250°W / 71.767; -29.250 |
| Area | 50,150 km |
| Terminus | Nordvestfjord, Greenland Sea |
The Daugaard-Jensen Glacier is a large glacier located on the southeast coast of Greenland.
The glacier was first mapped in 1933 by Lauge Koch during aerial surveys made during the 1931–34 Three-year Expedition to East Greenland (Treårsekspeditionen). It is named in honour of Niels Daugaard-Jensen, who was head of the Greenland department under the Danish Ministry of State and former governor (Landsfoged) of Northern Greenland.
Geography
Located in the northwestern side of Hinksland and south of Charcot Land, it drains an area of 50,150 km of the Greenland Ice Sheet with a flux (quantity of ice moved from the land to the sea) of 10.5 km per year, as measured for 1996.
With its terminus in the Nordvestfjord of the Scoresby Sound, it is one of the main producers of icebergs to the north of Iceland. In an original docuseries of Alex Honnold on National Geographic it is mentioned that measurements of the glacier have shown that it is stable despite global warming.
See also
References
- "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
- Rignot E., Kanagaratnam P. (2006). "Changes in the velocity structure of the Greenland Ice Sheet". Science. 311 (5763): 986–990. Bibcode:2006Sci...311..986R. doi:10.1126/science.1121381. PMID 16484490. S2CID 22389368.
- Reynisson R.F., Jacobsson S.P. (2009). "Xenoliths of exotic origin at Surtsey volcano, Iceland" (PDF). Surtsey Research. 12: 21–27. doi:10.33112/surtsey.12.3. S2CID 59579421.
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