Sharp Glacier ( da, Sharp Gletscher), is a

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in northwestern

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. Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality. This glacier was named by Robert Peary after Benjamin Sharp (1858 – 1915), zoologist of the

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who took part in the Peary expedition to Greenland of 1891-1892.Robert Neff Keely, Gwilym George Davis, ''In Arctic Seas: the Voyage of the Kite with the Peary Expedition,'' 2011 p. 373

Geography

The Sharp Glacier discharges 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 has its

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in the northern side of the head of the

Inglefield Fjord Inglefield Gulf or Inglefield Fjord ( da, Inglefield Bredning; kl, Kangerlussuaq) is a fjord in northwestern Greenland. To the west, the fjord opens into the Baffin Bay. Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality. Inglefield Gulf ...

, NNW of Josephine Peary Island. Its last stretch lies between two

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s: Mount Endicott in the western side, separating it from the Hart Glacier to the west. and Mount Asserson in the eastern side, separating it from the Melville Glacier to the east. The Sharp Glacier flows roughly from north to south. In the same manner as its neighboring glaciers, it has retreated by approximately in the period between the 1980s and 2014.The recent regimen of the ice cap margin in North Greenland
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Identifying Spatial Variability in Greenland's Outlet Glacier Response to Ocean HeatIce front and flow speed variations of marine-terminating outlet glaciers along the coast of Prudhoe Land, northwestern Greenland
Glaciers of Greenland {{Greenland-glacier-stub

Geography

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