Ryder Glacier ( da, Ryder Gletscher), is one of the major

glacier A glacier (; ) is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires distinguishing features, such as ...

s in northern

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 i ...

.Contribution to the glaciology of northern Greenland - UCI ESS
/ref> This glacier was first mapped by

Lauge Koch Lauge Koch (5 July 1892 – 5 June 1964) was a Danish geologist and Arctic explorer. Biography Lauge Koch was born in 1892 to Karl and Elisabeth Koch. His development as a scientist was greatly influenced by his father's second cousin Johan P ...

in 1917 during

Knud Rasmussen Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen (; 7 June 1879 – 21 December 1933) was a Greenlandic–Danish polar explorer and anthropologist. He has been called the "father of Eskimology" (now often known as Inuit Studies or Greenlandic and Arctic Studie ...

's 1916-1918 Second Thule Expedition to north Greenland and was named after Danish Arctic explorer Carl Ryder.

Geography

The Ryder Glacier originates in the

Greenland Ice Cap 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 equiv ...

. It is roughly north–south oriented and has its terminus at the head of the Sherard Osborn Fjord between Permin Land and

Warming Land Warming Land is a peninsula in far northern Greenland. Administratively it is a part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. It was named after Danish botanist and ecologist Eugen Warming (1841 – 1924). Geography Warming Land is located be ...

. It is 30 km long and is a floating tongue within the fjord.''Ice flow of Humboldt, Petermann and Ryder Gletscher, northern Greenland'' - Journal of Glaciology 45 (150):231-241 · June 1999
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Bibliography

Anthony K. Higgins, ''North Greenland Glacier Velocities and Calf Ice Production''
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References

External links

A Mini-Surge on the Ryder Glacier, Greenland, Observed by Satellite Radar InterferometryArctic Sea Ice Forum
Glaciers of Greenland {{Greenland-geo-stub