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Bernstorff Glacier is a major, fast-flowing outlet glacier on the King Frederick VI Coast in southeastern Greenland. Descending from the eastern side of the Greenland Ice Sheet, it runs south-southeast into Bernstorff Fjord, or Kangertittivaq, and is joined along the way by a northern branch west of Alfheimbjerg. Its terminus enters the fjord just west of Fimbul Glacier’s mouth and north of Storebjørn Glacier. Together with Fimbul Glacier, it can release enough ice to block the fjord. Named for Danish statesman Andreas Peter Bernstorff, it is also known by alternate forms of his name and is closely watched today for glacier change and warm Atlantic water’s role in ice loss.
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