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Hart Glacier is an outlet glacier in northwestern Greenland that drains from the Greenland Ice Sheet into the northern side of the head of Inglefield Fjord, northwest of Josephine Peary Island. Its lower course runs between Prudhoe Land and Mount Endicott, which separates it from Sharp Glacier, and it flows from northwest to southeast like nearby glaciers. American explorer Robert Peary named it for Gavin W. Hart, a Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences official who helped fund Peary’s expeditions. In recent decades, the glacier has retreated, with its front pulling back about 1 kilometer between the 1980s and 2014, reflecting wider changes among Greenland’s outlet glaciers.
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