Nature
Upernavik Glacier is a large tidewater glacier on Greenland’s northwestern shore in Avannaata municipality. Known in Greenlandic as Sermeq and in Danish as Upernavik isstrøm, it carries a large portion of the Greenland ice sheet westward into Upernavik Icefjord. This makes it part of the major outlet system through which inland ice reaches the sea. Its importance comes from serving as a significant link between the vast ice sheet and Greenland’s coast.
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