Henson Glacier

Henson Glacier, or Henson Gletscher, is a major glacier in northern Greenland that flows south to north from the Greenland Ice Cap to the head of J.P. Koch Fjord in a stark landscape of ice caps and fjords. Knud Rasmussen named it in 1917 during the Second Thule Expedition in honor of African-American Arctic explorer Matthew Henson, linking it to the region’s broader history of polar exploration. The glacier also gave its name to the Henson Gletscher Formation, a geological unit that preserves fossils such as trilobites and echinoderms, making it important both as a prominent physical feature and as a landmark in the study of ancient geology.

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