Storebjørn Glacier

Storebjørn Glacier is an active, fast-flowing outlet glacier on the King Frederick VI Coast in southeastern Greenland, in Sermersooq, draining the eastern side of the Greenland Ice Sheet. It flows north along the western end of the Thorland peninsula to the head of Bernstorff Fjord, or Kangertittivaq. South of Bernstorff Glacier and northwest of Svartalfbjerg, it calves enough ice to clog the fjord and visibly shape local conditions. Named after a mountain in Norway, it is part of southeast Greenland’s dynamic outlet-glacier system, whose shifting flow and calving are closely watched as signs of how the ice sheet responds to ocean and climate conditions.

Sermersooq · Greenland