Adolf Hoel Glacier

Adolf Hoel Glacier is a major glacier in the remote, uninhabited expanse of northeast Greenland’s King Christian X Land, within Northeast Greenland National Park. First mapped in 1931 by the Høygaard and Mehren expedition, it was named for Norwegian geologist Adolf Hoel, who lived from 1863 to 1933 and chaired the Arctic Trading Co. The glacier begins on the eastern side of the Greenland ice sheet near Hobb Land, receives the Skråbræ from the north, and flows along the northern edge of Andrée Land before ending in the Nunatak Glacier. Moving about 0.3 kilometers per year, it forms part of a larger network of glaciers, nunataks, and exposed rock.

Nationalparken · Greenland