Nature
Sun Glacier is an outlet glacier in northwestern Greenland that drains from the Greenland Ice Sheet at the head of MacCormick Fjord and flows roughly north-northeast to south-southwest. Named by Arctic explorer Robert Peary, it also entered exploration-era landscape art when Frank Wilbert Stokes painted its terminus in 1892, emphasizing the vivid colors and textures of meltwater, crevasses, and ice-covered cliffs. Today it remains a marine-terminating outlet of the ice sheet within Avannaata municipality. Its importance rests in exploration history, landscape art, and its role in the glacial systems that feed Greenland's fjords.
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Qaasuitsup Kommunia · Greenland