Nordenskiöld Glacier (Novaya Zemlya)
For the glacier in Melville Bay, see Nordenskiold Glacier, Northwest Greenland. For the glacier near Disko Bay, see Nordenskiold Glacier, West Greenland. For the glacier in East Greenland, see Akuliarutsip Sermerssua. For the glacier in South Georgia, see Nordenskjöld Glacier.
| Nordenskiöld Glacier ледник Норденшельда | |
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NASA picture of Rozhdestvensky (left), Novopashenny (middle) and Roze glaciers of the Nordenskiöld Glacier group | |
  Location within Novaya Zemlya, Russia | |
| Type | Tidewater glacier group |
| Location |
Novaya Zemlya Russian Federation |
| Coordinates | 75°51′N 64°59′E / 75.850°N 64.983°ECoordinates: 75°51′N 64°59′E / 75.850°N 64.983°E |
| Length | 20 km (average) |
| Width | 5 km (average) |
| Terminus | Kara Sea |
The Nordenskiöld Glacier (Russian: ледник Норденшельда; Lednik Nordenshel'da) is a group of four glaciers in Novaya Zemlya, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.[1][2]
This glacier group was named after Arctic explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld.
Geography
See also: Severny Island ice cap
The Nordenskiöld Glacier group is located on the eastern side of northern Severny Island of Novaya Zemlya. Flowing from the Severny Island ice cap, it is composed of four roughly north-south oriented tidewater glaciers:
- Vershinsky Glacier (Lednik Vershinskogo), the soutwesternmost
- Rozhdestvensky Glacier (Lednik Rozhdestvenskogo)
- Novopashenny Glacier (Lednik Novopashennogo), also known as Lednik Sredniy[3]
- Roze Glacier (Lednik Roze), the northeasternmost
Their fronts have widths of over 3 km in average and their terminuses are in the Kara Sea between Cape Opasnyy and Cape Middendorff.[4]
 Map of northern Novaya Zemlya and southern Franz Josef Land. |
See also
Further reading
- J. J. Zeeberg, Climate and Glacial History of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, Russian Arctic. Purdue University Press (January 1, 2002) ISBN 978-9051705638
References
- ↑ Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 North Coast of Russia Enroute, p. 81
- ↑ "Lednik Nordenshel'da". Mapcarta. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- ↑ "Lednik Sredniy". Mapcarta. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- ↑ GoogleEarth
External links
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