K.J.V. Steenstrup Glacier

K.J.V. Steenstrup Glacier is a major glacier system on Greenland’s east coast in King Christian IX Land, within today’s Sermersooq area. It is not one glacier but two nearly parallel outlet glaciers, the Northern and Southern K.J.V. Steenstrup glaciers, rising in a mountainous, heavily glaciated region east of Schweizerland and flowing southeast to the Denmark Strait. Near the coast, the northern glacier reaches the mouth of Ikersuaq, or Ikertivaq fjord, and both glaciers end in dramatic ice walls about 60 to 90 meters high. Named for Danish geologist and explorer K. J. V. Steenstrup, the glaciers reflect Greenland’s long history of scientific exploration and mapping.

Sermersooq · Greenland