Melville Glacier

Melville Glacier is an outlet glacier in northwestern Greenland that flows from the Greenland Ice Sheet into the head of Inglefield Fjord, with its terminus on the fjord’s northern side near Josephine Peary Island. Named by Robert Peary for George W. Melville, Chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering, it runs roughly northeast to southwest through a rugged landscape of ice and rock. Its lower course lies between Mount Lee and Mount Asserson, which separate it from neighboring glaciers. Like other glaciers in the region, Melville Glacier has retreated measurably, with its front pulling back about 1 kilometer between the 1980s and 2014.

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