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Hans Tausen Ice Cap is a large ice cap on a high plateau in Peary Land, far northern Greenland, within Northeast Greenland National Park. Spanning about 100 kilometers north to south and 80 kilometers east to west, it feeds several outlet glaciers in multiple directions. Ice cores show the ice cap is about 3,500 to 4,000 years old and likely formed after the Holocene climatic optimum, a warmer period roughly 6,000 to 8,000 years before present. Its age, scale, and preserved ice have made it an important place for studying climate history in northern Greenland.
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