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King Oscar Glacier, or Kong Oscar Gletscher in Danish, is a large glacier on Greenland’s northwestern coast in Avannaata Municipality. It is one of several outlets that drain the northwestern Greenland Ice Sheet into Melville Bay, flowing roughly southwestward between Peary Glacier and Nordenskiold Glacier. The glacier belongs to a broader network of ice streams carrying ice from the interior toward the coast. A 2006 survey found that from 1996 to 2005 it had a strongly negative mass balance, losing more ice through melting and iceberg calving than it gained from snowfall, in line with the Greenland Ice Sheet’s accelerating overall ice loss.
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