Henson Glacier (), is one of the major glaciers in northern Greenland.Contribution to the glaciology of northern Greenland - UCI ESS
It was named in 1917 for African-American Arctic explorer Matthew HensonMatthew A. Henson, A Journey for the Ages: Matthew Henson and Robert Peary's Historic North... by Knud Rasmussen during the Second Thule Expedition to north Greenland.Independence Fjord, Peary, and the First Thule Expedition The Henson Gletscher Formation, which preserves trilobites and echinoderm fossils, among others, is named after this glacier.
Geography The Henson Glacier originates in the Greenland Ice Cap. It is roughly north–south oriented and has its terminus at the head of the J.P. Koch Fjord. The Expedition Glacier discharges from the west north of the terminus of the Henson Glacier, between the head of the fjord and Navarana Fjord on the Freuchen Land side. The Hans Tausen Ice Cap is located to the east, close to the glacier tongue.Kap Gletscher
Bibliography H.P. Trettin (ed.), Geology of the Innuitian Orogen and Arctic Platform of Canada and Greenland. Geological Survey of Canada (1991)
See also Henson Gletscher Formation List of glaciers in Greenland Peary Land
References
External links Middle Cambrian echinoderm remains from the Henson Gletscher Formation of North Greenland