Sun Glacier (; old Greenlandic spelling: Iterdlagssûp Qíngua), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.
This glacier was named by Robert Peary.Robert Neff Keely, Gwilym George Davis, In Arctic Seas: the Voyage of the Kite with the Peary Expedition, 2011 p. 373 It was the subject of paintings by Frank Wilbert Stokes at the end of the 19th century.Paintings by Frank Wilbert Stokes 1896 In a 1892 painting Stokes described the terminus of the glacier:
Geography The Sun Glacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet at the head of the MacCormick Fjord.T. C. Chamberlin, Glacial Studies in Greenland. The Journal of Geology Vol. 5, No. 3 (Apr. - May, 1897), pp. 229-240. Published by: The University of Chicago Press
The glacier flows roughly from NNE to SSW.The recent regimen of the ice cap margin in North Greenland
See also List of glaciers in Greenland Inglefield Fjord
References
External links Identifying Spatial Variability in Greenland's Outlet Glacier Response to Ocean Heat