Melville Glacier (Greenland)

This article is about the glacier in NW Greenland. For the glacier in Antarctica, see Melville Glacier.
Melville Glacier
Melville Gletscher
Map of Northwestern Greenland
Map showing the location of Melville Glacier
Map showing the location of Melville Glacier
Location within Greenland
TypeTidal outlet glacier
LocationGreenland
Coordinates77°44′N 66°39′W / 77.733°N 66.650°W / 77.733; -66.650
Width2 km (1.2 mi)
TerminusInglefield Fjord
Baffin Bay
StatusRetreating[1]

Melville Glacier (Danish: Melville Gletscher), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland.[2] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.

This glacier was named by Robert Peary after Chief Engineer George W. Melville (1841 – 1912), Chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference iffs was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Melville Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  3. ^ Robert Neff Keely, Gwilym George Davis, In Arctic Seas: the Voyage of the Kite with the Peary Expedition, 2011 p. 373