Britannia Glacier

Britannia Glacier is a major glacier in Queen Louise Land in northeastern Greenland, within Northeast Greenland National Park. Flowing roughly north to south through northern Queen Louise Land, it reaches about 9 kilometers in width and is closely associated with Storstrømmen, Suzanne Glacier, Ymer Nunatak, Britannia Lake, and Admiralty Glacier. The glacier was mapped during the 1952 to 1954 British North Greenland Expedition led by Commander James Simpson, whose main base stood near its southern end. Named for Britannia and also known at the time as Unicorn Glacier, it later became linked to a striking example of Arctic change when a glacier surge destroyed the expedition’s abandoned huts in the 1980s.

Nationalparken · Greenland