Tracy Glacier

Tracy Glacier, known in Danish as Tracy Gletscher, is an outlet glacier in northwestern Greenland that drains the Greenland Ice Sheet into the head of Inglefield Fjord east of Josephine Peary Island. Explorer Robert Peary named it for Benjamin F. Tracy, the United States Secretary of the Navy, in thanks for granting him three years’ leave for Arctic exploration. At its seaward end, the glacier ends between two nunataks, with Mount Lee separating it from Farquhar Glacier to the north and the Smithson Range dividing it from Heilprin Glacier to the south. Scientists have long been struck by the sharp contrast between contiguous Tracy and Heilprin glaciers.

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