Rimfaxe ( da, Rimfaxe GletscherDen grønlandske Lods – Geodatastyrelsen
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of the King Frederick VI Coast in the Sermersooq municipality, southeastern

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. This glacier is named after Hrimfaxi, the cosmic horse of

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Geography

Rimfaxe is a large, active glacier flowing from the eastern side of 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 ...

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The Rimfaxe glacier flows roughly southeastward between high peaks and has its terminus in the

Sehested Fjord Sehested Fjord ( kl, Uummannap Kangertiva)) is a fjord of the King Frederick VI Coast in the Sermersooq municipality, southeastern Greenland. This fjord was named in 1829 by Lieutenant W. A. Graah after Danish Admiral Christen Thomesen Sehested. ...

shortly after its confluence with the Guldfaxe Glacier that joins it from the west. The smaller

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glacier flows to the east, running parallel to it, and has its terminus in a lake that discharges right by the terminus of the Rimfaxe.

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picture of the terminus

Rimfaxe Glacier, Greenland

Rimfaxe and Guldfaxe Glaciers – NASA, Operation IceBridge
Glaciers of Greenland Sermersooq {{Greenland-geo-stub

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