Steenstrup Glacier

Steenstrup Glacier is the largest and widest glacier along that part of northwestern Greenland’s Lauge Koch Coast in Melville Bay, flowing west from the Greenland ice sheet into the bay. In Avannaata municipality, it lies between Dietrichson Gletscher to the north and Kjer Glacier to the south. Its terminus sits just northeast of the Depot Islands and north of Red Head, with Kløftet Nunatak and Kleinschmidt Nunatak marking the broad coastal outlet. Named for Danish geologist and Greenland explorer K. J. V. Steenstrup, who lived from 1842 to 1913, it forms part of the westward-draining ice-sheet system and has drawn modern attention as a changing Arctic glacier.

Avannaata · Greenland