Leidy Glacier

Leidy Glacier is an outlet glacier in northwestern Greenland within Avannaata municipality, carrying ice from the Greenland Ice Sheet through Academy Glacier and flowing generally from southeast to northwest. It is notable for an unusual cross-shaped pattern in its lower course and for reaching the sea at two fjord heads: Academy Fjord to the northwest and, as Marie Glacier, at the head of Olrik Fjord to the southwest. Robert Peary named it for Joseph Leidy, an American paleontologist, parasitologist, and anatomist. Its branching form and role in the region’s ice-drainage system make it significant in far northwestern Greenland.

Avannaata · Greenland