Guldfaxe (glacier)
Guldfaxe (Danish: Guldfaxe Gletscher) is a glacier of the King Frederick VI Coast area in the Sermersooq municipality, southeastern Greenland.
This glacier is named after Gullfaxi, the golden-maned horse of Norse mythology.
Geography
Guldfaxe is a large, active glacier flowing from the eastern side of the Greenland ice sheet.
The Guldfaxe glacier flows roughly eastward between sharp nunataks and flows into the right side of the Rimfaxe Glacier shortly before its terminus in the Sehested Fjord.
See also
References
- ^ Den grønlandske Lods – Geodatastyrelsen Archived 2020-10-28 at the Wayback Machine p. 34
- ^ GoogleEarth
- ^ "Guldfaxe". GeoHack. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
External links
- Vulnerability of Southeast Greenland Glaciers to Warm Atlantic Water From Operation IceBridge and Ocean Melting Greenland Data
- Guldfaxe Glacier, NASA
- Rimfaxe and Guldfaxe Glaciers – NASA, Operation IceBridge
- Figure S21. Aerial images recorded in the latter half of World War II
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