Skinfaxe

Skinfaxe is a large active glacier on the King Frederick VI Coast in southeastern Greenland, on the eastern side of the Greenland ice sheet in Sermersooq municipality. As an outlet glacier, it drains ice from the interior toward the coast, flowing roughly southeastward through the deeply indented fjord landscape of the region. Near its lower reaches, Tjasse Glacier joins it from the west, and its terminus then reaches Kattertooq Fjord. The glacier’s name comes from Skinfaxi, the cosmic horse of Norse mythology, and it remains part of southeast Greenland’s active glacial system as well as research tracking climate-related glacier fluctuations.

Sermersooq · Greenland