Leidy Glacier

Glacier in Greenland

Leidy Glacier

Leidy Gletscher

Leidy Glacier as seen during an Operation IceBridge flight on 22 March 2017. Credit:NASA/Nathan Kurtz

Location within Greenland

Type| Tidal outlet glacier
Location| Greenland
Coordinates| 77°16′N 66°2′W﻿ / ﻿77.267°N 66.033°W﻿ / 77.267; -66.033
Width| 4 km (2.5 mi)
Terminus| Academy Fjord
Inglefield Fjord
Baffin Bay
Status| Retreating[1]

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

This glacier was named by Robert Peary after paleontologist, parasitologist, and anatomist Joseph Leidy (1823 – 1891), member of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.[3]

## Geography

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The Leidy Glacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet through the Academy Glacier.[2]

The glacier flows roughly from SE to NW and, after forming an unusual cross pattern, it has its terminus at the head of the Academy Fjord to the northwest and, as the Marie Glacier, at the head of the Olrik Fjord to the southwest.[4][1]

19th century map of the Inglefield Gulf.

## See also

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* List of glaciers in Greenland
* Inglefield Fjord

## References

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1. ^ a b The recent regimen of the ice cap margin in North Greenland
2. ^ a b "Leidy 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
4. ^ Greenland’s Leidy Glacier; NASA Earth Observatory

## External links

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* Identifying Spatial Variability in Greenland's Outlet Glacier Response to Ocean Heat
* This Greenland Glacier Flows Like Water Around Rock - Gizmodo

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