Rink Glacier | |
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Rink Gletscher | |
Type | Tidewater glacier |
Location | NW Greenland |
Coordinates | 76°12′N 61°9′W / 76.200°N 61.150°W |
Width | 6 km (3.7 mi) |
Terminus | Melville Bay |
Status | Retreating [1] |
Rink Glacier ( Danish: Rink Gletscher), is a glacier in NW Greenland. [2] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.
This glacier was named after Danish geologist and explorer of Greenland Hinrich Johannes Rink (1819 - 1893).
The Rink Glacier is located in the Lauge Koch Coast, Melville Bay. [3] It originates in the western Greenland ice sheet and flows southwestwards between the Døcker Smith Glacier to the west and the Peary Glacier to the east. [2] Its terminus lies ENE of Cape Murdoch, northeast of the Fisher Islands and north of the Balgoni Islands in Melville Bay. [4]
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