Adolf Hoel Glacier

{{Short description|Glacier in Greenland}} {{Infobox glacier | name = Adolf Hoel Glacier | other_name =''Adolf Hoels Gletscher'' | image = Aerial photographs of Greenland ENBLA05.jpg | caption = View of the Adolf Hoel Glacier | type = [[Piedmont glacier]] | location =[[Greenland]] | map = Greenland | map_caption = Location within Greenland | coordinates = {{coord|74|0|N|26|45|W|region:GL_dim:30000|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | mark = Blue_pog.svg | area = | length = {{convert|45|km|abbr=on}} | width = {{convert|7|km|abbr=on}} | thickness = | terminus = [[Nunatak Glacier]]<br>[[Geologfjord]]<br>[[Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord]]<br>[[Greenland Sea]] | status = }} '''Adolf Hoel Glacier''' ({{langx|da|Adolf Hoels Gletscher}}), also known as '''Hoel Glacier''' ''(Hoels Gletscher)'',<ref name="mapcarta"/> is one of the major [[glacier]]s in [[King Christian X Land]], Northeast [[Greenland]]. Administratively it lies in the [[Northeast Greenland National Park]] zone.

The area where the glacier flows is remote and uninhabited.

==History== This glacier was first mapped in 1931 by the [[Høygaard and Mehren expedition]]. It was named after [[Adolf Hoel]] (1863–1933), Norwegian geologist and chairman of the [[Arctic Trading Co.]]<ref name="cat">{{cite web | title = Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland | publisher = Geological Survey of Denmark | url = https://sciencedocbox.com/Geology/67887797-Exploration-history-and-place-names-of-northern-east-greenland.html | accessdate = 31 July 2019}}</ref>

==Geography== The Adolf Hoel Glacier originates in the eastern side of the [[Greenland ice sheet]] around the area of [[Hobb Land]], with [[J. L. Mowinckel Land]] to the south and [[Arnold Escher Land]] to the north. It is joined by the [[Skråbræ]] from the north. Then it flows along the northern edge of [[Andrée Land (Greenland)|Andrée Land]] in a roughly WNW/ESE direction until its terminus in the [[Nunatak Glacier]] to the east.<ref name="mapcarta"/> It has a flow of {{convert|0.3|km|abbr=on}} per year.<ref>[https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2012GL051634 Ice flow in Greenland for the International Polar Year 2008–2009]</ref>

The [[Eyvind Fjeld Glacier]] flows to the north and the [[Wilkins Nunataks]] rise to the NW. The [[Jakob Kjøde Bjerg]], a large {{convert|1850|m|abbr=on}} high [[nunatak]], rises off the northeastern side of the glacier, beyond which flows the [[Waltershausen Glacier]].<ref name="mapcarta">{{cite web|url=https://mapcarta.com/19195458|title=Adolf Hoels Gletscher|work=Mapcarta|accessdate=31 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://media.nature.com/original/nature-assets/ngeo/journal/v7/n6/extref/ngeo2167-s1.pdf |title=Deeply incised submarine glacial valleys beneath the Greenland ice |access-date=2019-08-01 |archive-date=2019-08-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190801043621/https://media.nature.com/original/nature-assets/ngeo/journal/v7/n6/extref/ngeo2167-s1.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2010JF001847 Ocean forcing of the Greenland Ice Sheet]</ref>

{| |- valign="top" |[[File:Operational Navigation Chart B-9, 1st edition.jpg|thumb|300px|Map of Northeastern Greenland]] |}

==Bibliography== *A. K. Higgins, Jane A. Gilotti, M. Paul Smith (eds.), ''The Greenland Caledonides: Evolution of the Northeast Margin of Laurentia''.

==See also== *[[List of glaciers in Greenland]]

==References== {{reflist|2}}

==External links== *[https://books.google.com/books?id=JbGnNXeQS6cC&pg=RA4-PA6 U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, Volume 1386, Part 3]

[[Category:Glaciers of Greenland]]