Hart Glacier (Greenland)

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

This article is about the glacier in NW Greenland. For the glacier in Antarctica, see Hart Glacier.
Hart Glacier
Hart Gletscher
Location within Greenland
TypeTidal outlet glacier
LocationGreenland
Coordinates77°41′N 67°9′W
Width2 km (1.2 mi)
TerminusInglefield Fjord
Baffin Bay
StatusRetreating[1]

This glacier was named by Robert Peary after Gavin W. Hart (1848 – 1909), permanent Councillor and member of the Finance committee of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, who helped Peary raise funds for his expeditions.[3]

Geography

The Hart Glacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet and has its terminus in the northern side of the head of the Inglefield Fjord, northwest of Josephine Peary Island. Its last stretch lies between Prudhoe Land in the west and Mount Endicott, a nunatak that separates it from the Sharp Glacier to the east.[2]

The Hart Glacier flows roughly from NW to SE. In the same manner as its neighboring glaciers, it has retreated by approximately 1 km (0.62 mi) in the period between the 1980s and 2014.[1]

Map of Northwestern Greenland
19th century map of the Inglefield Gulf.

See also

References
  1. The recent regimen of the ice cap margin in North Greenland
  2. "Hart Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  3. 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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