Sharp Glacier

Sharp Glacier is a northwestern Greenland outlet glacier that drains from the Greenland Ice Sheet into the head of Inglefield Fjord. Named by Robert Peary for zoologist Benjamin Sharp, who joined Peary’s 1891–1892 Greenland expedition, it is linked to the era when High Arctic features were being recorded and named. In its lower course, the glacier flows roughly north to south between two nunataks, with Mount Endicott to the west and Mount Asserson to the east, which separate it from Hart and Melville glaciers. Like other nearby glaciers, Sharp Glacier retreated by about 1 kilometer between the 1980s and 2014, reflecting broader change along Greenland’s ice margins.

Avannaata · Greenland