Storstrømmen

Storstrømmen is a major glacier in northeastern Greenland and one of the three main marine-terminating outlets carrying the North-East Greenland Ice Stream to the coast. Named by the Denmark Expedition of 1906–08, it extends southward for more than 125 kilometers and is over 20 kilometers wide, meeting L. Bistrup Brae at Bredebrae within a larger glacier system. Unlike the ice stream’s faster northern outlets, Storstrømmen moves slowly, averaging about 185 meters per year, a pattern tied to its higher-elevation setting and conditions beneath the ice. A surge-type glacier, it has remained in a quiescent phase since its last reported surge ended in 1990, while continuing to show grounding-line retreat.

Nationalparken · Greenland