Flade Isblink is an

ice cap In glaciology, an ice cap is a mass of ice that covers less than of land area (usually covering a highland area). Larger ice masses covering more than are termed ice sheets. Description Ice caps are not constrained by topographical features ...

on the

Crown Prince Christian Land Crown Prince Christian Land ( da, Kronprins Christian Land) is a large peninsula in northern Greenland. It is a part of King Frederick VIII Land and administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park. It was named after Crown P ...

peninsula, King Frederick VIII Land, NE Greenland. Station Nord, the only inhabited place in the region, lies to the northwest, off the ice cap area.

History

The Flade Isblink was named by Lauge Koch in 1933. He was the first to map the area in the course of survey flights during the 1931–34 Three-year expedition to East Greenland.''Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland'', Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland

Geography

This large and flat ice cap is separated from the

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 equiva ...

and is the largest independent ice cap in Greenland. It is located between the Wandel Sea to the north and

Amdrup Land Amdrup Land is a land area in the Crown Prince Christian Land peninsula, King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the NE Greenland National Park area. Numerous fossils of the Carboniferous and Palaeozoic per ...

and Antarctic Bay to the south.

Romer Lake Romer Lake ( da, Romer Sø) is a land-locked freshwater fjord at the northern end of King Frederick VIII Land, near Greenland's northeastern coast. The Danish military base/weather station Nord —the only inhabited place in the area— lies to ...

and the

Princess Elizabeth Alps The Princess Elizabeth Alps ( da, Prinsesse Elisabeth Alper) is a mountain range in King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. The range was named by Eigi ...

extend southwestwards at the western end and to the east lies the Fram Strait and the

Greenland Sea The Greenland Sea is a body of water that borders Greenland to the west, the Svalbard archipelago to the east, Fram Strait and the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Norwegian Sea and Iceland to the south. The Greenland Sea is often defined as p ...

. The ice cap covers most of the northern part of Crown Prince Christian Land and is about in area. The underlying bedrock is roughly above sea level. The Flade Isblink has two ice domes, the North Dome and the larger South Dome. Kilen is a roughly triangular stretch of unglaciated flat land in the eastern shore with its apex in the ice cap between the two domes.InSAR observations of ice elevation and velocity fluctuations at the Flade Isblink ice cap, eastern North Greenland
/ref> The northern section of the ice cap is drained by two outlet glaciers flowing in a roughly northwestern direction. The northeastern corner of Greenland, Nordostrundingen, extends into the sea at the eastern end.A study of the Flade Isblink ice cap using a simple ice flow model
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External links

A Mitten Materializes in Greenland - NASAInvestigating the unusual dynamics of the Flade Isblink Ice Cap, NE Greenland
Ice caps of Greenland

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