Hubbard Glacier (Greenland)

Hubbard Glacier
Hubbard Gletscher
Hubbard Bræ
Map of Northwestern Greenland
Map showing the location of Hubbard Glacier
Map showing the location of Hubbard Glacier
Location within Greenland
TypeValley glacier
LocationGreenland
Coordinates77°33′N 67°45′W / 77.550°N 67.750°W / 77.550; -67.750
Width3.5 km (2.2 mi)
TerminusInglefield Fjord
Baffin Bay
StatusRetreating[1]

Hubbard Glacier (Danish: Hubbard Gletscher), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland.[2] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.

This glacier was named by Robert Peary after Gardiner Greene Hubbard (1822 – 1897), founder and first president of the American Geographical Society.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference hy was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Hubbard Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
  3. ^ Robert Neff Keely, Gwilym George Davis, In Arctic Seas: the Voyage of the Kite with the Peary Expedition, 2011 p. 373

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