Rink Glacier

Photograph of Rink Glacier

Rink Glacier (Danish translation: "Rink Isbrae") (Greenlandic: Kangilliup Sermia) (71°45′N 051°40′W / 71.750°N 51.667°W / 71.750; -51.667), is a large glacier located on the west coast of Greenland. It drains an area of 30,182 km2 (11,653 sq mi) of the Greenland Ice Sheet with a flux (quantity of ice moved from the land to the sea) of 12.1 km3 (2.9 cu mi) per year, as measured for 1996.[1] As reported by Anker Weidick and Ole Bennike in 2007, it is ranked second or third in iceberg production in western Greenland.[2] It is also the swiftest moving and highest surface ice in the world.[3]

The glacier is named in honor of Hinrich Johannes Rink, Danish geologist and Greenlandic researcher.

References

  1. ↑ Rignot E., Kanagaratnam P. (2006). "Changes in the velocity structure of the Greenland Ice Sheet". Science 311 (5763): 986–990. doi:10.1126/science.1121381. PMID 16484490.
  2. ↑ "Rink Glacier, NW Greenland". osu.edu. February 6, 2009. Retrieved 18 July 2010.
  3. ↑ "Popular Science". Popular Science (Bonnier Corporation) 123 (6): 25. Dec 1933. ISSN 0161-7370.


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