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Daugaard-Jensen Glacier is a major outlet glacier on Greenland’s southeast coast, carrying ice from the Greenland Ice Sheet into Nordvestfjord in the Scoresby Sound system. First mapped in 1933 during Lauge Koch’s aerial surveys for the 1931–34 Three-year Expedition to East Greenland, it was named for Niels Daugaard-Jensen, a Danish official and former governor of Northern Greenland. The glacier drains about 50,150 square kilometers and, with a measured 1996 ice flux of 10.5 cubic kilometers per year, is a major source of icebergs in waters north of Iceland. Its size, output, and reported stability have made it notable in discussions of climate and ice-sheet change.
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