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Rink Glacier (Melville Bay)

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).

Geography

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]

See also

References

  1. ^ Warming, glacier melt and surface energy budget
  2. ^ a b "Rink Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  3. ^ Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 20 - GEUS
  4. ^ GoogleEarth

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