The Hutchinson Glacier ( da, Hutchinson Gletscher) is a large active
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#Glaciology, ablation over many years, often Century, centuries. It acquires dis ...
on the east coast 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 ...
.
This glacier was named after American aviator
George R. Hutchinson
Colonel George R. Hutchinson (February 11, 1902 - August 21, 1989) was an American aviator and media personality of the 1930s.
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Early career
George Hutchinson was working as a bank teller in Baltimore, Maryland when he married Blanche Delc ...
who crash-landed and was stranded in the area in 1932 during an attempted around-the-world flight with his family and was rescued and brought to
Ammasalik
Tasiilaq, formerly Ammassalik and Angmagssalik, is a town in the Sermersooq municipality in southeastern Greenland. With 1,985 inhabitants as of 2020, it is the most populous community on the eastern coast, and the List of cities and towns in Gr ...
by a fishing trawler.
Geography
The Hutchinson Glacier flows north of the
Crown Prince Frederick Range
The Crown Prince Frederick Range ( da, Kronprins Frederik Bjerge) is a large mountain range in King Christian IX Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Sermersooq Municipality.
Despite being relatively unknown it has ...
from the
Hutchinson Plateau Hutchinson may refer to:
Places United States
* Hutchinson, Kansas
* South Hutchinson, Kansas
* Hutchinson, Minnesota
* Hutchinson, Pennsylvania
* Hutchinson, West Virginia, in Logan County
* Hutchinson, Marion County, West Virginia
* Hutchi ...
in the northwest in a roughly eastern direction with an average elevation of .
The
terminus
Terminus may refer to:
* Bus terminus, a bus station serving as an end destination
* Terminal train station or terminus, a railway station serving as an end destination
Geography
*Terminus, the unofficial original name of Atlanta, Georgia, United ...
of the glacier is in the southern side of the mouth of the
Kangerlussuaq Fjord
Kangerlussuaq Fjord (old spelling: ''Kangerdlugssuaq'', da, Søndre Strømfjord) is a long fjord in the Qeqqata municipality in central-western Greenland. The fjord is long and between and wide, flowing from the estuary of Qinnguata Kuussua r ...
, the second largest
fjord
In physical geography, a fjord or fiord () is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier. Fjords exist on the coasts of Alaska, Antarctica, British Columbia, Chile, Denmark, Germany, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Ice ...
in East Greenland.
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This glacier is located in the Sermersooq municipality
Sermersooq (, da, sted med meget is, lit=place of much ice) is a municipality in Greenland, formed on 1 January 2009 from five earlier, smaller municipalities. Its administrative seat is the city of Nuuk (formerly called Godthåb), the capital ...
.
See also
*List of glaciers in Greenland
This is a list of glaciers in Greenland. Details on the size and flow of some of the major Greenlandic glaciers are listed by Eric Rignot and Pannir Kanagaratnam (2006)
Ice sheets and caps
*Greenland Ice Sheet
* Christian Erichsen Ice Cap
* Fla ...
*List of fjords of Greenland
This is a list of the most important fjords of Greenland:In Northern Greenland, a large area made up entirely of fjords; therefore Peary Land above not a fjord but a fjord area.In Northeastern Greenland, a large area made up entirely of fjor ...
References
External links
Science Flight Report- Operation IceBridge Arctic 2010
The Cryosphere; The first complete inventory of the local glaciers
Glaciers of Greenland
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