Rink Glacier

Rink Glacier, also known as Rink Isbræ and Kangilliup Sermia, is a major outlet glacier in western Greenland whose front reaches Karrat Fjord at Nordost Bay, where ice from the Greenland Ice Sheet enters Baffin Bay. Named for Hinrich Johannes Rink, it drains about 30,182 square kilometers of the ice sheet and is the largest glacier on Greenland’s west coast. In 1996 its annual ice flux was measured at 12.1 cubic kilometers. It is also one of western Greenland’s most important sources of icebergs and has been described as having the world’s swiftest-moving and highest-surface ice.

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