Sharp Glacier (Greenland)

This article is about the glacier in NW Greenland. For the glacier in Antarctica, see Sharp Glacier.
Sharp Glacier
Sharp Gletscher
Map of Northwestern Greenland
Map showing the location of Sharp Glacier
Map showing the location of Sharp Glacier
Location within Greenland
TypeTidal outlet glacier
LocationGreenland
Coordinates77°42′N 66°58′W / 77.700°N 66.967°W / 77.700; -66.967
Width2 km (1.2 mi)
TerminusInglefield Fjord
Baffin Bay
StatusRetreating[1]

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

This glacier was named by Robert Peary after Benjamin Sharp (1858 – 1915), zoologist of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences who took part in the Peary expedition to Greenland of 1891-1892.[3]

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