Nordenskiöld Glacier (Novaya Zemlya)

The Nordenskiöld Glacier (Russian: ледник Норденшельда; Lednik Nordenshel'da) is a group of four glaciers in Novaya Zemlya, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.[1]

For the glacier in Melville Bay, see Nordenskiold Glacier, Northwest Greenland. For the glacier near Disko Bay, see Nordenskiold Glacier, West Greenland. For the glacier in East Greenland, see Akuliarutsip Sermerssua. For the glacier in South Georgia, see Nordenskjöld Glacier.
Nordenskiöld Glacier
ледник Норденшельда
NASA picture of Rozhdestvensky (left), Novopashenny (middle) and Roze glaciers of the Nordenskiöld Glacier group
Location within Novaya Zemlya, Russia
TypeTidewater glacier group
LocationNovaya Zemlya
Russian Federation
Coordinates75°51′N 64°59′E
Length20 km (average)
Width5 km (average)
TerminusKara Sea

This glacier group was named after Arctic explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld.

Geography
See also: Severny Island ice cap

The Nordenskiöld Glacier group is located on the eastern side of northern Severny Island of Novaya Zemlya. Flowing from the Severny Island ice cap, it is composed of four roughly north-south oriented tidewater glaciers:

  • Vershinsky Glacier (Lednik Vershinskogo), the soutwesternmost
  • Rozhdestvensky Glacier (Lednik Rozhdestvenskogo)
  • Novopashenny Glacier (Lednik Novopashennogo), also known as Lednik Sredniy[2]
  • Roze Glacier (Lednik Roze), the northeasternmost

Their fronts have widths of over 3 km in average and their terminuses are in the Kara Sea between Cape Opasnyy and Cape Middendorff.[3]

Map of northern Novaya Zemlya and southern Franz Josef Land.

See also

Further reading
  • J. J. Zeeberg, Climate and Glacial History of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, Russian Arctic. Purdue University Press (January 1, 2002) ISBN 978-9051705638

References
  1. "Lednik Nordenshel'da". Mapcarta. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  2. "Lednik Sredniy". Mapcarta. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  3. GoogleEarth
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