Kjer Glacier

Kjer Glacier
Location Melville Bay, Greenland
Terminus Melville Bay
Kjer Glacier
Location within Greenland

Kjer Glacier is a tidewater glacier in the Qaasuitsup municipality, located on the northwestern shore of Greenland. It drains the Greenland ice sheet (Kalaallisut: Sermersuaq) southweatwards into Melville Bay.[1] 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

Main article: Qaasuitsup

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] Since then, both municipalities and the entire coast of Melville Bay are part of the Qaasuitsup municipality, at 660,000 km2 (254,827.4 sq mi) the largest municipality in the world.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Upernavik Avannarleq, Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992
  2. ^ "Fakta om kommunen" (in Danish). Qaasuitsup Municipality. http://www.qaasuitsup.gl/da-DK/Om-kommunen/Fakta-om-kommunen. Retrieved 3 September 2010.