Nioghalvfjerdsbræ

Nioghalvfjerdsbræ, or the 79 N Glacier, is a major outlet glacier in northeastern Greenland that helps define the southern limit of Crown Prince Christian Land. Draining 103,314 square kilometers of the Greenland Ice Sheet, it carried an estimated 14.3 cubic kilometers of ice to the sea each year in 1996. At its seaward end, two calving fronts are separated by Hovgaard Island, and it long featured a broad floating tongue. Named by the Denmark expedition of 1906 to 1908 for its latitude, it later became linked to the deaths of Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen and Niels Peter Høeg Hagen. In recent decades it has also shown notable meltwater activity and major retreat and breakup.

Greenland