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Farquhar Glacier
Farquhar Glacier ( da, Farquhar Gletscher), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality. This glacier was named by Robert Peary after Commodore Farquhar (1840 – 1907), Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks. Geography The Farquhar Glacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet into the northern side of the head of the Inglefield Fjord just northeast of Josephine Peary Island. Its terminus lies between two nunataks: Mount Lee in the east separates it from the Tracy Glacier to the southeast and Mount Field, a larger nunatak to the west, separates it from the Melville Glacier to the northwest. Formerly the roughly NE/SW flowing Farquhar Glacier joined with the east/west flowing Tracy Glacier at their terminus. However, these two glaciers lost contact after the terminus disintegrated in 2002. See also *List of glaciers in Greenland *Inglefield Fjord *Glacier terminus A glacier terminus, toe, or snout, is the end of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tidal Outlet Glacier
Glacier morphology, or the form a glacier takes, is influenced by temperature, precipitation, topography, and other factors. The goal of glacial morphology is to gain a better understanding of glaciated landscapes and the way they are shaped. Types of glaciers can range from massive ice sheets, such as the Greenland ice sheet, to small cirque glaciers found perched on mountain tops. Glaciers can be grouped into two main categories: * Ice flow is constrained by the underlying bedrock topography * Ice flow is unrestricted by surrounding topography Unconstrained Glaciers Ice sheets and ice caps Ice sheets and ice caps cover the largest areas of land in comparison to other glaciers, and their ice is unconstrained by the underlying topography. They are the largest glacial ice formations and hold the vast majority of the world's fresh water. Ice sheets Ice sheets are the largest form of glacial formation. They are continent sized ice masses that span areas over . They are dome s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josephine Peary Island
Josephine may refer to: People * Josephine (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) * Josephine (singer), a Greek pop singer Places *Josephine, Texas, United States *Mount Josephine (other) * Josephine County, Oregon, a county located in the U.S. state of Oregon Film and music * ''Josephine'' (2001 film), an English-language Croatian film directed by Rajko Grlić * ''Joséphine'' (2013 film), a French film directed by Agnès Obadia * ''Josephine'' (album), album by Magnolia Electric Co. Songs * "Josephine" (Wayne King song), a 1951 song, recorded by many artists including Les Paul and Ray Charles *"My Girl Josephine", by Fats Domino, also known as "Josephine" and "Hello Josephine", recorded by many artists *Josephine (Too Many Secrets)", a song by Jon English, 1982 * "Josephine" (Chris Rea song), a 1985 song * "Josephine" (Terrorvision song), a 1998 song *"Yes Tonight Josephine", a 1957 song by Johnnie Ray *"Josephine", a 1955 song from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northward Over The Great Ice - A Narrative Of Life And Work Along The Shores And Upon The Interior Ice-cap Of Northern Greenland In The Years 1886 And 1891-1897, With A Description Of The Little Tribe (14779963574) '', an early Jacobean stage play
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Northward may refer to: * The cardinal direction North * Northward, Isles of Scilly, part of Old Grimsby, England * Northward (band), a band composed of vocalist Floor Jansen and guitarist Jørn Viggo Lofstad * , a requisitioned trawler of the Royal Navy during World War II See also * North (other) * Northward equinox, the equinox when Earth's subsolar point appears to leave the Southern Hemisphere * Northward Hill, a nature reserve in Britain * ''Northward Ho ''Northward Ho'' (or ''Ho!'', or ''Hoe'') is an early Jacobean era stage play, a satire and city comedy written by Thomas Dekker and John Webster, and first published in 1607. ''Northward Ho'' was a response to ''Eastward Ho'' (1605) by Ben Jon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glacier Terminus
A glacier terminus, toe, or snout, is the end of a glacier at any given point in time. Although glaciers seem motionless to the observer, in reality glaciers are in endless motion and the glacier terminus is always either advancing or retreating. The location of the terminus is often directly related to glacier mass balance, which is based on the amount of snowfall which occurs in the accumulation zone of a glacier, as compared to the amount that is melted in the ablation zone. The position of a glacier terminus is also impacted by localized or regional temperature change over time. Tracking Tracking the change in location of a glacier terminus is a method of monitoring a glacier's movement. The end of the glacier terminus is measured from a fixed position in neighboring bedrock periodically over time. The difference in location of a glacier terminus as measured from this fixed position at different time intervals provides a record of the glacier's change. A similar way of trac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melville Glacier (Greenland)
Melville Glacier ( da, Melville Gletscher), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality. This glacier was named by Robert Peary after Chief Engineer George W. Melville (1841 – 1912), Chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering.Robert Neff Keely, Gwilym George Davis, ''In Arctic Seas: the Voyage of the Kite with the Peary Expedition,'' 2011 p. 373 Geography The Melville Glacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet and has its terminus in the northern side of the head of the Inglefield Fjord just north of Josephine Peary Island. Its last stretch lies between two nunataks: Mount Lee in the east separates it from the Farquhar Glacier to the east, and Mount Asserson, in the west, separates it from the Sharp Glacier to the west. The Melville Glacier flows roughly from NE to SW. In the same manner as its neighboring glaciers, it has retreated by approximately in the period between the 1980s and 2014. See also *List of gla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Field (Greenland)
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Mount Field may refer to: * Mount Field (Antarctica) * Mount Field (Tasmania), in Australia ** Mount Field National Park, in Australia * Mount Field (British Columbia), in Canada * Mount Field (cricket ground), in Faversham, England * Mount Field (New Hampshire), in the United States See also * Mountfield (other) * Field Hill, British Columbia, Canada * Field (other) Field may refer to: Expanses of open ground * Field (agriculture), an area of land used for agricultural purposes * Airfield, an aerodrome that lacks the infrastructure of an airport * Battlefield * Lawn, an area of mowed grass * Meadow, a grass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Glacier (Greenland)
Tracy Glacier ( da, Tracy Gletscher), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality. This glacier was named by Robert Peary after Benjamin F. Tracy (1830 – 1915), United States Secretary of the Navy, who granted him three years' leave in order to engage in Arctic explorations. Geography The Tracy Glacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet into the head of the Inglefield Fjord just east of Josephine Peary Island. Its terminus lies between two nunataks. Mount Lee, the northern one, separates it from the Farquhar Glacier to the northwest and a larger nunatak, the Smithson Range, separates it from the Heilprin Glacier to the south. Although the Tracy Glacier is contiguous to the Heilprin Glacier, both glaciers have a different nature, a fact which has been a source of puzzlement for scientists for over a century. See also *List of glaciers in Greenland *Inglefield Fjord Inglefield Gulf or Inglefield Fjord ( da, Ingl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Lee (Greenland)
Mount Lee is a peak in the Santa Monica Mountains, located in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California, USA. The Hollywood Sign is located on its southern slope. History The original unnamed peak was one of the "three sisters" along with Cahuenga and Burbank peaks, the current flattened top being a result of silent movie pioneer Mack Sennett's unfulfilled plans to build an elaborate home on the property. To advertise the new Beachwood Canyon real estate development, the developers, including Sennett and ''Los Angeles Times'' publisher Harry Chandler, ordered a huge wooden sign built atop what is now known as Mount Lee. The mountain is named after early Los Angeles car dealer and radio station owner Don Lee. Lee, a one-time bicycle shop owner who became a protégé of Los Angeles pioneer businessman Earle C. Anthony, purchased his Los Angeles radio station KHJ from Chandler in 1927. Four years later Lee began experimenting with television using call letters W6XAO. Studio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nunatak
A nunatak (from Inuit ''nunataq'') is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge. They are also called glacial islands. Examples are natural pyramidal peaks. When rounded by glacial action, smaller rock promontories may be referred to as rognons. The word is of Greenlandic origin and has been used in English since the 1870s. Description The term is typically used in areas where a permanent ice sheet is present and the nunataks protrude above the sheet.J. J. Zeeberg, ''Climate and Glacial History of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, Russian Arctic''. pp. 82–84 Nunataks present readily identifiable landmark reference points in glaciers or ice caps and are often named. While some nunataks are isolated, sometimes they form dense clusters, such as Queen Louise Land in Greenland. Nunataks are generally angular and jagged, which hampers the formation of glacial ice on their tops, although snow can a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenland Ice Sheet
The Greenland ice sheet ( da, Grønlands indlandsis, kl, Sermersuaq) is a vast body of ice covering , roughly near 80% of the surface of Greenland. It is sometimes referred to as an ice cap, or under the term ''inland ice'', or its Danish equivalent, ''indlandsis''. An acronym, GIS, is frequently used in the scientific literature. It is the second largest ice body in the world, after the Antarctic ice sheet. The ice sheet is almost long in a north–south direction, and its greatest width is at a latitude of 77°N, near its northern margin. The average thickness is about and over at its thickest point. In addition to the large ice sheet, smaller ice caps (such as Maniitsoq and Flade Isblink) as well as glaciers, cover between around the periphery. The Greenland ice sheet is adversely affected by climate change. It is more vulnerable to climate change than the Antarctic ice sheet because of its position in the Arctic, where it is subject to the regional amplification o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenland
Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland is the world's largest island. It is one of three constituent countries that form the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark and the Faroe Islands; the citizens of these countries are all citizens of Denmark and the European Union. Greenland's capital is Nuuk. Though a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe (specifically Norway and Denmark, the colonial powers) for more than a millennium, beginning in 986.The Fate of Greenland's Vikings , by Dale Mackenzie Brown, ''Archaeological Institute of America'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bureau Of Yards And Docks
The Bureau of Yards and Docks (abbrev.: BuDocks) was the branch of the United States Navy responsible from 1842 to 1966 for building and maintaining navy yards, drydocks, and other facilities relating to ship construction, maintenance, and repair. The Bureau was established on August 31, 1842 by an act of Congress (5 Stat. 579), as one of the five bureaus replacing the Board of Naval Commissioners established in 1815. Originally established as the ''Bureau of Naval Yards and Docks'', the branch was renamed the ''Bureau of Yards and Docks'' in 1862. The Bureau was abolished effective in 1966 as part of the Department of Defense's reorganization of its material establishment, being replaced by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC). Chiefs of the Bureau * Captain Lewis Warrington, 1842–1846Naval History and Heritage Command, Bureau of Yards and Docks, Lists of Senior Officers, Published: Mon Mar 07 15:03:27 EST 2016, Official U.S. Navy web si/ref> * Captain Josep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
