Akuliarutsip Sermerssua, also known as Nordenskiöld Glacier, (), is a large

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

located on the east coast of

Greenland Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. It is by far the largest geographically of three constituent parts of the kingdom; the other two are metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenlan ...

Geography

This glacier flows into the head of the

Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord (; ) is the northernmost fjord system in the NE Greenland National Park area, East Greenland. Geography The Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord has its mouth in the Foster Bay of the Greenland Sea, between Cape Mackenzie at th ...

, just west of the mouth of Kjerulf Fjord, and marks the southern limit of

Frænkel Land Frænkel Land is a peninsula in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. History It was named ''Frænkels Halfö'' by Alfred Gabriel Nathorst, A.G. Nathorst on his 1899 expedit ...

and the northern of Goodenoughland.

Petermann Peak Petermann Peak, (), also known as ''Petermann Fjeld'', ''Petermanns Topp'' and ''Petermann Point'' is a mountain in King Christian X Land, Northeast Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. The area a ...

, one of the highest mountains in Greenland, and the highest in the area, rises to a height of on a

nunatak A nunatak (from Inuit language, Inuit ) is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge. They often form natural pyramidal peaks. Isolated nunataks are also cal ...

rising right by the northern side of the fjord.Map
(PDF; 3,4 MB) von Nordostgrönland im Maßstab 1:1.000.000, De Nationale Geologiske Undersøgelser for Danmark og Grønland (GEUS) The Nordenskiöld Glacier flows roughly in a WSW/ENE direction, draining an area of of the

Greenland Ice Sheet The Greenland ice sheet is an ice sheet which forms the second largest body of ice in the world. It is an average of thick and over thick at its maximum. It is almost long in a north–south direction, with a maximum width of at a latitude ...

with a

flux Flux describes any effect that appears to pass or travel (whether it actually moves or not) through a surface or substance. Flux is a concept in applied mathematics and vector calculus which has many applications in physics. For transport phe ...

(quantity of ice moved from the land to the sea) of per year, as measured for 1996.

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Glaciers of Greenland {{arctic-stub ceb:Akuliarutsip Sermerssua (suba sa yelo sa Greenland) nl:Nordenskiöldgletsjer sv:Akuliarutsip Sermerssua (glaciär i Grönland)

Geography

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