Kjer Glacier

Kjer Glacier
Kjer Glacier
Kjærs Bræ
	Location within Greenland
Location	Melville Bay, Greenland
Coordinates	75°3′N 57°35′W / 75.050°N 57.583°W
Terminus	Melville Bay

Kjer Glacier is a tidewater glacier in the northwestern shore of Greenland. Administratively it belongs to Avannaata municipality.

Geography

It drains the Greenland ice sheet (Greenlandic: Sermersuaq) southwestwards into Melville Bay^[1] south of the Steenstrup Glacier and north of the Hayes Glacier.^[2] The glacier front is located to the northwest of the Tuttulikassak nunatak, with the glacier constituting the northern end of Upernavik Archipelago.^[1]

Administrative border

Before the administrative changes on 1 January 2009 in the country, the border between the former Upernavik Municipality and the former Qaanaaq Municipality ran through Kjer Glacier.^[1] After that date both municipalities and the entire coast of Melville Bay were made part of Qaasuitsup municipality.^[3] Since 1 January 2018 it is part of Avannaata municipality.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Upernavik Avannarleq, Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992
^ "Kjer Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
^ "Fakta om kommunen" (in Danish). Qaasuitsup Municipality. Archived from the original on 30 October 2010. Retrieved 3 September 2010.

[saga-1] Upernavik Avannarleq, Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992

[mapcarta-2] "Kjer Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 20 June 2019.

[3] "Fakta om kommunen" (in Danish). Qaasuitsup Municipality. Archived from the original on 30 October 2010. Retrieved 3 September 2010.

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Kjer Glacier

Geography

Administrative border

See also

References

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