Petermann Glacier

Petermann Glacier is a major tidewater outlet glacier in northwestern Greenland that carries ice from the Greenland ice sheet into the Arctic Ocean through a long floating tongue in Petermann Fjord. Named with the fjord for August Heinrich Petermann, it forms a prominent Arctic glacier front and has remained relatively stable in grounding-line position despite notable change. It gained wide attention for dramatic calving events, especially in 2010 and 2012, and has shortened by several kilometers since 2002. The glacier and fjord have also become important polar research sites, while nearby studies revealed a vast subglacial canyon inland and continuing uncertainty about the fjord’s underwater topography.

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