Morris Jesup Glacier () is a glacier in northwestern Greenland.Geographical Names - A.P. Bernstorf Gletscher: Greenland Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.
This glacier was named by Robert Peary after American industrialist-philanthropist Morris K. Jesup, president of the Peary Arctic Club, who helped finance Peary's expeditions.Robert Neff Keely, Gwilym George Davis, In Arctic Seas: the Voyage of the Kite with the Peary Expedition, 2011 p. 373
Geography The Morris Jesup Glacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet at the head of an unnamed fjord located just to the north of Cape Robertson in the Smith Sound area.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 NE to SW.The recent regimen of the ice cap margin in North Greenland The Diebitsch Glacier is located to the northwest, beyond Cape Saumarez, and Siorapaluup Kangerlua to the southeast, around Cape Robertson.Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 90
See also List of glaciers in Greenland
References
External links Earthquake Archive: past quakes in or near Morris Jesup Gletscher Identifying Spatial Variability in Greenland's Outlet Glacier Response to Ocean Heat Seasonal ice-speed variations in 10 marine-terminating outlet glaciers along the coast of Prudhoe Land, northwestern Greenland