Nordenskiöld Glacier (Novaya Zemlya)
The Nordenskiöld Glacier is a group of four glaciers in Novaya Zemlya, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.
This glacier group was named after Arctic explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld.Geography
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 ', the soutwesternmost
- Rozhdestvensky Glacier '
- Novopashenny Glacier ', also known as Lednik Sredniy
- Roze Glacier ', 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.
