Global Information Lookup Global Information

Humboldt Glacier information


Humboldt Glacier
Humboldt Gletscher
Satellite image of Humboldt Glacier
Map showing the location of Humboldt Glacier
Map showing the location of Humboldt Glacier
Location within Greenland
TypeTidewater glacier
LocationGreenland
Coordinates79°30′N 63°00′W / 79.500°N 63.000°W / 79.500; -63.000
TerminusKane Basin

Humboldt Glacier (Danish: Humboldt Gletscher) is one of the major glaciers in northern Greenland.

The glacier is named after German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt and is the widest tidewater glacier in the Northern Hemisphere.

and 23 Related for: Humboldt Glacier information

Request time (Page generated in 0.7947 seconds.)

Humboldt Glacier

Last Update:

Humboldt Glacier (Danish: Humboldt Gletscher) is one of the major glaciers in northern Greenland. The glacier is named after German naturalist Alexander...

Word Count : 141

Pico Humboldt

Last Update:

since the 1970s. By 2009, all but one glacier, the Humboldt Glacier, had vanished. In 2019, the remaining glacier covers an area of 0.1 km2 and was forecast...

Word Count : 306

Alexander von Humboldt

Last Update:

him include: Humboldt Bay – Bay in Northern California, United States Humboldt Current – off the west coast of South America Humboldt Glacier – in North...

Word Count : 21337

Humboldt

Last Update:

Illinois Humboldt, Iowa Humboldt, Kansas Humboldt, Minnesota Humboldt, Nebraska Humboldt, Ohio Humboldt, Portland, Oregon Humboldt, Pennsylvania Humboldt, South...

Word Count : 770

List of glaciers in South America

Last Update:

Glacier Spegazzini Glacier Mayo Glacier Onelli Glacier Torre Glacier Negro Glacier Frías Glacier Alerce Glacier Castaño Overo Glacier Manso Glacier Peulla...

Word Count : 290

List of glaciers in Greenland

Last Update:

Heilprin Glacier Heim Glacier Heimdal Glacier Helheim Glacier Helland Glacier Henson Glacier Hiawatha Glacier Hubbard Glacier Humboldt Glacier Hutchinson...

Word Count : 483

Humboldt Graben

Last Update:

Humboldt Graben (German: Humboldtgraben, "Humboldt Trench", 71°45′S 11°55′E / 71.750°S 11.917°E / -71.750; 11.917 (Humboldt Graben)) is a glacier-filled...

Word Count : 830

List of glaciers

Last Update:

located on Pico Humboldt, was estimated to cover 10 hectares (25 acres) in 2011. Christensen Glacier – Bouvet Island, Atlantic Ocean Cook Glacier – Kerguelen...

Word Count : 1590

Environmental issues in Venezuela

Last Update:

globally out of 172 countries. In 2024, Venezuela lost its last glacier, the Humboldt Glacier, also known as La Corona, which dwindled to less than 2 hectares...

Word Count : 1438

2024 in climate change

Last Update:

became the first country in modern times to lose all of its glaciers, with the Humboldt Glacier having shrunk to the point that climate scientists reclassified...

Word Count : 5905

Anchorage Glacier Pilots

Last Update:

From 1970 to 1972, the Glacier Pilots were a member of the Big West Conference, along with the Alaska Goldpanners, Humboldt Crabs, Grand Junction Eagles...

Word Count : 176

Inglefield Land

Last Update:

the Humboldt Glacier in the northeast, and the Kane Basin to the north. The Dodge Glacier is located to the southwest and the Hiawatha Glacier to the...

Word Count : 166

Kee Bird

Last Update:

documented in the British Channel 4 Encounters episode "Treasure of the Humboldt Glacier" first shown on April 23, 1995; it was later shown in the US as "B-29...

Word Count : 3304

Kane Basin

Last Update:

at the eastern side of the basin, off the southwestern end of the Humboldt Glacier in northern Greenland. Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory...

Word Count : 343

Humboldt Crabs

Last Update:

The Humboldt Crabs are a collegiate summer baseball team located in Arcata, California. Playing in every season since they were founded in 1945 by Lou...

Word Count : 2089

Geoff Somers

Last Update:

miles over the Greenland Ice Cap from the most southern part to the Humboldt glacier in the North. The expedition then successfully travelled from Seal...

Word Count : 842

Washington Land

Last Update:

forms the peninsula's southeastern coastline, across which is the Humboldt Glacier and beyond it Inglefield Land. The Aleqatsiaq Fjord forms the limit...

Word Count : 267

Polaris expedition

Last Update:

abandoned, Polaris turned south for home. In Smith Sound, west of the Humboldt Glacier, she ran aground on a shallow iceberg and could not be freed. On the...

Word Count : 5005

Erik Holtved

Last Update:

and again from 1946 to 1947. He surveyed the Greenland coast from Humboldt Glacier to Thule. As a linguist, Holtved participated in the study of Eskimo–Aleut...

Word Count : 717

Peabody Bay

Last Update:

located on the eastern side of the Kane Basin off the western end of the Humboldt Glacier. Cape Forbes and the Cass Fjord lie at the northern end of the roughly...

Word Count : 269

McGary Islands

Last Update:

Peabody Bay about 6 km off Cape Agassiz and off the southern end of the Humboldt Glacier. The islands are small and are located close to the shore of Inglefield...

Word Count : 149

Thorild Wulff

Last Update:

of them being Wulff. He died from fatigue near Cape Agassiz off the Humboldt Glacier. The Greenlandic plant species Braya thorild-wulffii (Brassicaceae)...

Word Count : 255

Jean Malaurie

Last Update:

3 kilometre wide region from Inglefield Land and the north of the Humboldt Glacier, to the south of Washington Land (Cape Jackson, 80° N). He discovered...

Word Count : 3931

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net