Thomas Glacier ( da, Thomas Gletscher) is a
glacier
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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 is t ...
.
Administratively it belongs to the
Northeast Greenland National Park.
The glacier was named by
Robert Peary after E. B. Thomas, one of the founding members of the
Peary Arctic Club in
New York.
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Geography
The Thomas Glacier is a large, slow-moving glacier in Roosevelt Land
Roosevelt Land ( da, Roosevelts Land) is a peninsula in far northern Greenland. It is a part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.Google Maps
The territory was named by Robert Peary after US President Theodore Roosevelt (1858 – 1919).
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. It flows northwestwards with its terminus
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* 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 ...
at the head of the Hunt Fjord
Hunt Fjord is a fjord in Peary Land, northern Greenland. To the north the fjord has its mouth in the Lincoln Sea of the Arctic Ocean. Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park.
This fjord was named by Robert Peary in 19 ...
.[''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute,'' p. 95]
The peaks of the Roosevelt Range
The Roosevelt Range or Roosevelt Mountains ( da, Roosevelt Fjelde) is a mountain range in Northern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. Its highest peak is the highest point in Peary Land.
Loca ...
close to the head of the Thomas Glacier rise to heights of nearly . In the area of its terminus sharp-peaked, dark nunataks protrude above the ice.[Geographical Items on North Greenland Encyclopedia Arctica 14](_blank)
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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
*Flad ...
*Peary Land
Peary Land is a peninsula in northern Greenland, extending into the Arctic Ocean. It reaches from Victoria Fjord in the west to Independence Fjord in the south and southeast, and to the Arctic Ocean in the north, with Cape Morris Jesup, the nort ...
References
External links
North Greenland Glacier Velocities and Calf Ice Production
Glaciers of Greenland
Roosevelt Range
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