The Nordenskiöld Glacier (russian: ледник Норденшельда; ''lednik Nordenshel'da'') is a group of four
glaciers in
Novaya Zemlya
Novaya Zemlya (, also , ; rus, Но́вая Земля́, p=ˈnovəjə zʲɪmˈlʲa, ) is an archipelago in northern Russia. It is situated in the Arctic Ocean, in the extreme northeast of Europe, with Cape Flissingsky, on the northern island, ...
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Arkhangelsk Oblast
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Russia.
This glacier group was named after
Arctic explorer
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Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld.
Geography
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''
* 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.
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See also
*
List of glaciers in Europe
*
List of glaciers in Russia
Further reading
*J. J. Zeeberg, ''Climate and Glacial History of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, Russian Arctic''. Purdue University Press (January 1, 2002)
References
External links
Changes in glacier extent on north Novaya Zemlya
Glaciers of Russia
Novaya Zemlya
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