Farquhar Glacier

Farquhar Glacier is a marine-terminating outlet glacier in northwestern Greenland that drains from the Greenland Ice Sheet into the head of Inglefield Fjord. Named by Robert Peary after Commodore Farquhar during the era of Arctic exploration, it lies between Mount Lee on the east and Mount Field on the west, which separate it from Tracy and Melville glaciers. Flowing roughly northeast to southwest, Farquhar Glacier once met Tracy Glacier at a shared terminus, but that connection ended in 2002 when the terminus disintegrated. Its changing ice front and flow have since figured in broader research on recent changes along Greenland’s ice-sheet margin.

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