This is a list of glaciers in Greenland. Details on the size and flow of some of the major

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 t ...

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Ice sheets and caps

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 ...

* Christian Erichsen Ice Cap * Flade Isblink * Gungner Ice Cap *

Hans Tausen Ice Cap Hans Tausen Ice Cap ( da, Hans Tausens Iskappe) is an ice cap in Peary Land, northern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. Age Ice cores show it is around 3500–4000 years old. It formed since the ...

* Heimdal Ice Cap * Hurlbut Glacier * Ismarken * Mælkevejen * Maniitsoq Ice Cap (Sukkertoppen) * Storm Ice Cap * Upper Frederiksborg Glacier

Other glaciers

A. Harmsworth Glacier A. Harmsworth Glacier or Alfred Harmsworth Glacier ( da, A. Harmsworth Gletscher) is a glacier in northern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park. The glacier was named by Robert Peary after British newspa ...

Aage Bertelsen Glacier Bertelsen Glacier ( da, Bertelsen Gletscher) is a glacier in northern Greenland.Google Earth Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park. Between 2006 and 2010 there was an automatic weather station near the glacier. The ...

Academy Glacier Foundation Ice Stream is a major ice stream in Antarctica's Pensacola Mountains. The ice stream drains northward for along the west side of the Patuxent Range and the Neptune Range to enter the Ronne Ice Shelf westward of Dufek Massif. The Unit ...

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Adolf Hoel Glacier Adolf Hoel Glacier ( da, Adolf Hoels Gletscher), also known as Hoel Glacier ''(Hoels Gletscher)'', is one of the major glaciers in King Christian X Land, Northeast Greenland. Administratively it lies in the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. ...

Akuliarutsip Sermerssua Akuliarutsip Sermerssua, also known as Nordenskiöld Glacier, ( da, Nordenskiöld Gletscher), is a large glacier located on the east coast of Greenland. Geography This glacier flows into the head of the Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord, just west of t ...

Amdrup Glacier Vice Admiral Sir Georg Carl Amdrup (Copenhagen, Denmark, November 19, 1866 – Copenhagen, January 15, 1947), RN was a Danish naval officer, Vice Admiral and Greenland researcher. Career In 1884, Amdrup, of the Royal Danish Navy, was sent to ...

Apusiaajik Glacier Apusiaajik Glacier is a tidewater glacier on the uninhabited Apusiaajik Island in the Sermersooq municipality on the southeastern shore of Greenland.Tasiilaq, Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992 Tourism During summer, the glacier edge is a popula ...

Balder Glacier Baldr (also Balder, Baldur) is a god in Germanic mythology. In Norse mythology, Baldr (Old Norse: ) is a son of the god Odin and the goddess Frigg, and has numerous brothers, such as Thor and Váli. In wider Germanic mythology, the god was kno ...

Bernstorff Glacier Bernstorff Glacier ( da, Bernstorff Gletscher, also referred to as ''A.P. Bernstorf Gletscher''), is a glacier in the King Frederick VI Coast, Sermersooq, southeastern Greenland. Like the fjord, this glacier was named after Danish statesman Andr ...

* Borgjokel Glacier *

Bowdoin Glacier Bowdoin Glacier ( da, Bowdoin Gletscher or ''Bowdoin Brae''), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality. Like the fjord further south, this glacier was named by Robert Peary after Bowdoin ...

Bredebrae Bredebrae ( da, Bredebræ; "Broad Glacier"), sometimes also known as "Brede Glacier", is a large glacier in northeastern Greenland. It has its terminus on the east coast of the Greenland ice sheet. Geography The mighty Bredebrae is the front or th ...

Bruckner Glacier Bruckner Glacier ( da, Brückner Gletscher), is a glacier in eastern Greenland. Geography The Bruckner Glacier originates in the Eastern side of the Greenland Ice Sheet. It flows eastward about to the south of the Heim Glacier. It has its te ...

* C. H. Ostenfeld Glacier * Chamberlin Glacier *

Christian IV Glacier Christian IV Glacier ( da, Christian IV Gletscher or ''Kong Christian den IV's Gletscher'') is a large glacier on the east coast of the Greenland ice sheet. It is named after King Christian IV of Denmark (1577 – 1648). Administratively this gla ...

Copeland Glacier Copeland or Copeland's may refer to: Places Australia * Copeland, New South Wales Canada * Copeland Islands (Nunavut) * Copeland Islands Marine Provincial Park, in the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia * Mount Copeland, also Copeland Ridg ...

(Pasterze Glacier) *

Daugaard-Jensen Glacier 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 ''(Treårseksp ...

* Diebitsch Glacier * Docker Smith Glacier *

Dodge Glacier Dodge Glacier ( da, Dodge Gletscher), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality. The glacier was named by Isaac Israel Hayes (1832 – 1881) after expedition member Henry W. Dodge during th ...

* Ejnar Mikkelsen Glacier *

F. Graae Glacier F is the sixth letter of the Latin alphabet. F may also refer to: Science and technology Mathematics * F or f, the number 15 (number), 15 in hexadecimal and higher positional systems * ''p'F'q'', the hypergeometric function * F-distributi ...

Fan Glacier Fan commonly refers to: * Fan (machine), a machine for producing airflow, often used for cooling ** Hand fan, an implement held and waved by hand to move air for cooling * Fan (person), short for fanatic; an enthusiast or supporter, especially wit ...

* Farquhar Glacier * Fenris Glacier *

Fimbul Glacier Fimbul Glacier ( da, Fimbulgletscher), is a glacier in eastern Greenland. This glacier was named after an Old Norse word for "giant" or "mighty". Geography The Fimbul Glacier originates in western Odinland, a glaciated peninsula. It flows so ...

Frederiksborg Glacier Frederiksborg Glacier ( da, Frederiksborg Gletscher) is a glacier on the east coast of the Greenland ice sheet. It is named after Frederiksborg Castle in Denmark. Administratively this glacier is part of the Sermersooq Municipality.Google Earth ...

* Frederikshaab Glacier * Gade Glacier *

Garm (glacier) Garm ( da, Garm Gletscher) is a glacier of the King Frederick VI Coast in the Sermersooq municipality, southeastern Greenland. This glacier is named after Garm, the mythical dog that guards Hel's gate in Norse mythology. Geography Garm is loc ...

Gerard de Geer Glacier Gerard is a masculine forename of Proto-Germanic origin, variations of which exist in many Germanic and Romance languages. Like many other early Germanic names, it is dithematic, consisting of two meaningful constituents put together. In this ca ...

Gerd Glacier Gerd or GERD may refer to: * Gerd (given name), a list of people with the given name or nickname * Gerd (moon), a moon of Saturn * Gerd Island, South Orkney Islands, Antarctica * Gastroesophageal reflux disease, a chronic symptom of mucosal damage ...

* Guldfaxe * Gymer Glacier * Hagen Glacier * Hamberg Glacier * Hann Glacier *

Hans Glacier Hans may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Hans (name), a masculine given name * Hans Raj Hans, Indian singer and politician ** Navraj Hans, Indian singer, actor, entrepreneur, cricket player and performer, son of Hans Raj Hans ** Yuvraj Hans, Punjabi ...

Harald Moltke Glacier The Harald Moltke Glacier ( kl, Sermersuak) is a glacier in Greenland. Geography The Harald Moltke Glacier is located in the far northwest of Greenland, to the north of the Thule Air Base. It is one of four large glaciers which feeds the Wolstenh ...

* Hart Glacier *

Hayes Glacier Hayes Glacier in Antarctica enters the southeast part of the Weddell Sea about west-southwest of Dawson-Lambton Glacier. It was discovered in the course of a U.S. Navy LC-130 plane flight over the Caird Coast on November 5, 1967, and was plot ...

* Heilprin Glacier *

Heim Glacier Heim Glacier is a glacier long in the southeast part of Arrowsmith Peninsula, which flows south to merge with the ice in Jones Channel on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. With Antevs Glacier to the north, it forms a transverse depres ...

Heimdal Glacier Heimdal Glacier ( da, Heimdal Gletscher) is a glacier in southeastern Greenland. It flows into the head of the Timmiarmiut Fjord system of the King Frederick VI Coast, northwest of the island of Timmiarmiit. Its name derives from Heimdallr, a dei ...

* Helheim Glacier * Helland Glacier *

Henson Glacier Henson Glacier is a glacier flowing northward from the Detroit Plateau in Graham Land, Antarctica, and merging with Wright Ice Piedmont about southwest of Hargrave Hill. It was mapped from air photos taken by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd (1955– ...

Hiawatha Glacier Hiawatha Glacier is a glacier in northwest Greenland, with its terminus in Inglefield Land. It was mapped in 1922 by Lauge Koch, who noted that the glacier tongue extended into Lake Alida (near Foulk Fjord). Hiawatha Glacier attracted attention in ...

Hubbard Glacier __NOTOC__ Hubbard Glacier ( Lingít: ''Sít' Tlein'') is a glacier located in Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve in eastern Alaska and Kluane National Park and Reserve in Yukon, Canada, and named after Gardiner Hubbard. Geography ...

Humboldt Glacier Humboldt Glacier ( da, Humboldt Gletscher) is one of the major glaciers in northern Greenland. The glacier is named after German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt and is the widest tidewater glacier in the Northern Hemisphere. Geography The Humb ...

Hutchinson Glacier The Hutchinson Glacier ( da, Hutchinson Gletscher) is a large active glacier on the east coast of the Greenland ice sheet. This glacier was named after American aviator George R. Hutchinson who crash-landed and was stranded in the area in 1932 du ...

* Igdlugdlip Glacier * Ikertivaq Glacier *

Ingia Glacier Ingia Glacier ( da, Inngia Isbræ), is a glacier in Avannaata Municipality, West Greenland. Geography It is a marine terminating glacier outlet of the western side of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Its Glacier terminus, terminus is in the Inngia Fjord, ...

* J.P. Koch Glacier * Jaette Glacier *

Jakobshavn Isbræ Jakobshavn Glacier ( da, Jakobshavn Isbræ), also known as Ilulissat Glacier ( kl, Sermeq Kujalleq), is a large outlet glacier in West Greenland. It is located near the Greenlandic town of Ilulissat (colonial name in da, Jakobshavn) and ends a ...

* Kangerlussuaq Glacier * Kangerdlugssup Glacier * Kangerdluarssup Sermia * Kangiata Nunata Sermia * Karale Glacier *

Knud Rasmussen Glacier The Knud Rasmussen Glacier is located in the far northwest of Greenland, to the north of the Thule Air Base. It is one of four large glaciers which feeds the Wolstenholme Fjord (sometimes referred to as "the world's largest ice machine"). The other ...

King Oscar Glacier King Oscar Glacier ( da, Kong Oscar Gletscher) is a large glacier in the Avannaata Municipality, on the northwestern coast of Greenland. Geography The King Oscar Glacier is one of several glaciers that drain the north-western part of the Greenla ...

Kjer Glacier Kjer Glacier is a tidewater glacier in the northwestern shore of Greenland. Administratively it belongs to Avannaata municipality. Geography It drains the Greenland ice sheet ( kl, Sermersuaq) southwestwards into Melville Bay''Upernavik Avannar ...

* K.J.V. Steenstrup Glacier * Kofoed-Hansen Glacier *

Kronborg Glacier Kronborg Glacier ( da, Kronborg Gletscher) is a glacier on the east coast of the Greenland ice sheet. It is named after Kronborg Castle in Denmark. Administratively this glacier is part of the Sermersooq Municipality. Google Earth The area surrou ...

* L. Bistrup Bræ Glacier * Leidy Glacier * Lille Glacier *

Marie Sophie Glacier Marie may refer to: People Name * Marie (given name) * Marie (Japanese given name) * Marie (murder victim), girl who was killed in Florida after being pushed in front of a moving vehicle in 1973 * Marie (died 1759), an enslaved Cree person in T ...

* Melville Glacier *

Midgard Glacier Midgard Glacier ( da, Midgårdsgletscher) is a glacier in the Sermersooq municipality, Eastern Greenland. This glacier is named after Midgard, one of the Nine Worlds in Norse mythology. Geography The Midgard Glacier is located on the eastern side ...

* Mittivakkat Glacier * Mohn Glacier *

Moore Glacier Moore Glacier ( da, Moore Gletscher) is a glacier in northern Greenland. Google Earth Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park. Between 2006 and 2010 there was an automatic weather station in the glacier. The glacier ...

Morris Jesup Glacier Morris Jesup Glacier ( da, Morris Jesup Gletscher, is a glacier in northwestern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality. This glacier was named by Robert Peary after American industrialist-philanthropist Morris K. J ...

* Nansen Glacier * Nioghalvfjerdsbrae * Nordenskiold Glacier NW * Nordenskiold Glacier W *

Nunatak Glacier Nunatak Glacier ( da, Nunatakgletscher), also known as Nunatak Glacier, is a glacier in King Christian X Land, Northeast Greenland. Administratively it lies in the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. The area where the glacier flows is remo ...

* Nunatakavsaup Glacier * Nunatakassaap Sermia * Nyeboe Glacier *

Peary Glacier Peary Glacier ( da, Peary Gletscher), is a glacier in north west Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality. This glacier was named after US Arctic explorer Robert Peary (1856 - 1920). Geography The Peary Glacier is ...

* Perdlerfiup Sermia *

Petermann Glacier Petermann Glacier ( da, Petermann Gletsjer) is a large glacier located in North-West Greenland to the east of Nares Strait. It connects the Greenland ice sheet to the Arctic Ocean at 81°10' north latitude, near Hans Island. The glacier and its f ...

Puisortoq Puisortoq is a glacier on the east coast of Greenland. It has been in a status of retreat for the past years. It is a very active glacier protruding into the sea and discharging great amounts of ice, making navigation along the coast dangerous. ...

Raven Glacier Raven Glacier is a glacier in northern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park. The glacier was named by Robert Peary after Anton A. Raven, one of the founding members of the Peary Arctic Club in New Y ...

* Rimfaxe *

Rink Glacier Rink Glacier ( da, Rink Isbræ; kl, Kangilliup Sermia) is a glacier in Avannaata, Greenland. This glacier is named in honor of Hinrich Johannes Rink, Danish geologist and Greenlandic researcher. Geography The Rink Glacier is the largest glacie ...

Rink Glacier (Melville Bay) Rink Glacier ( da, Rink Gletscher), is a glacier in NW Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality. This glacier was named after Danish geologist and explorer of Greenland Hinrich Johannes Rink (1819 - 1893). Geography ...

Rosenborg Glacier Rosenborg may refer to: Places Denmark * Rosenborg Castle, a castle in Copenhagen, Denmark Norway * Rosenborg, Trondheim, an area in the city of Trondheim, Norway * Rosenborg (station) of the Oslo Tramway * Rosenborg (old station) of the Oslo Tram ...

* Russell Glacier * Ryder Glacier *

Salisbury Glacier The Salisbury Glacier ( kl, Pinguarsuit Sermiat) is a glacier in Greenland. Geography This glacier is located in the far northwest of Greenland, to the north of the Thule Air Base. It is one of four large glaciers which feeds the Wolstenholme Fj ...

* Scarlet Heart Glacier * Sermeq Avannarleq near Ilulissat * Sermeq Avannarleq in Uummannaq District * Sermeq Silardleq * Sermilik Qagssimiut *

Sermitsiaq Glacier Sermitsiaq Glacier is a tidewater glacier in the Qeqqata municipality in western Greenland. It drains Maniitsoq ice cap into two fjords flowing towards Davis Strait: Kangaamiut Kangerluarsuat Fjord in the north, and the longer Kangerlussuatsiaq ...

Sharp Glacier Sharp Glacier is a glacier flowing north to the head of Lallemand Fjord, close east of the Boyle Mountains, in Graham Land. Mapped by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) from surveys and air photos, 1948–59. Named by United Kingdom Ant ...

* Sif Glacier * Skinfaxe *

Sleipner Glacier Sleipner Glacier ( da, Sleipner Gletscher), is a glacier in eastern 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 A ...

* Spalte Glacier * Steensby Glacier *

Steenstrup Glacier Steenstrup Glacier ( da, Steenstrup Gletscher), is a glacier in NW Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality. This glacier was named after Danish geologist and explorer of Greenland K. J. V. Steenstrup (1842 - 1913). ...

* Storstrømmen Glacier * Store Glacier *

Storebjørn Glacier Storebjørn Glacier ( da, Storebjørn Gletscher), is a glacier in the King Frederick VI Coast, Sermersooq, southeastern Greenland. This glacier was named after Storebjørn, a mountain in Norway. Geography The Storebjørn is an active glacier o ...

* Sun Glacier * Sverdrup Glacier *

Thomas Glacier Thomas Glacier () is a roughly Z-shaped glacier which drains the southeast slopes of Vinson Massif and flows for 17 nautical miles (31 km) through the south part of the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains, leaving the range between Doyra ...

* Tingmjarmiut * Tjalfe Glacier (SE Greenland) * Tjalfe Glacier *

Tjasse Glacier Tjasse ( da, Tjasses GletscherDen grønlandske Lods – Ge ...

* Tracy Glacier * Upernavik Isstrøm *

Umiamako Glacier Umiamako Glacier ( da, Umiammakku Isbræ), is a glacier in Avannaata, Greenland. Geography It is a marine terminating glacier outlet of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Its Glacier terminus, terminus is in the Karrat Fjord, Nordost Bay, Baffin Bay, North ...

Verhoeff Glacier Verhoeff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Frederick Herman Verhoeff (1874–1968), American ophthalmic surgeon who developed Verhoeff's stain * Hendrik Verhoeff (c. 1645–1680), Dutch silversmith and assassin * Jacobus Ve ...

* Vibeke Glacier *

Waltershausen Glacier Waltershausen Glacier ( da, Waltershausen Gletscher) is one of the major glaciers in Greenland. It has its terminus on the east coast of the Greenland ice sheet. History This glacier was named after German geologist Wolfgang Sartorius von Walters ...

Wordie Glacier Wordie Glacier ( da, Wordie Gletscher) is a glacier in northeastern Greenland. It has its terminus on the east coast of the Greenland ice sheet. This glacier was named after Scottish polar explorer James Wordie (1890–1962) by the 1926–27 exped ...

* Ydun Glacier *

Ygdrasil Yggdrasil (from Old Norse ), in Norse cosmology, is an immense and central sacred tree. Around it exists all else, including the Nine Worlds. Yggdrasil is attested in the ''Poetic Edda'' compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional s ...

Ymer Glacier Ymer can mean: * Ymer (dairy product), a Danish soured milk product * ''Ymer'' (1976 icebreaker), a Swedish icebreaker * Ymer, the first modern housing cooperative in Uppsala, Sweden * ''Ymer'' (journal), a Swedish yearbook on geography publishe ...

* Zachariæ Isstrøm

Firns

Daniel Bruun Firn Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel—"God is my strength" ...

* Dreyer Firn *

Rink Firn Rink may refer to: * Ice rink, a surface of ice used for ice skating ** Figure skating rink, an ice rink designed for figure skating ** Ice hockey rink, an ice rink designed for ice hockey ** Speed skating rink, an ice rink designed for speed skat ...

Sven Hedin Firn Sven (in Danish and Norwegian, also Svend and also in Norwegian most commonly Svein) is a Scandinavian first name which is also used in the Low Countries and German-speaking countries. The name itself is Old Norse for "young man" or "young war ...

''Sven Hedin Firn'',

Army Map Service The Army Map Service (AMS) was the military cartography, cartographic agency of the United States Department of Defense from 1941 to 1968, subordinated to the United States Army Corps of Engineers. On September 1, 1968, the AMS was redesignated th ...

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Firns

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