Hiawatha Glacier
| Hiawatha | ||
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| location | Qaanaaq District , Avannaata Kommunia , Greenland | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 49 ′ N , 67 ° 1 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Septembersøerne → “Nares Strait River” → Marshall Bay → Nares Strait | |
The Hiawatha Glacier is a glacier on Greenland near Inglefield Land .
It was mapped by Lauge Koch in 1922 .
In 2015 a structure with a diameter of 31 km was discovered there, which is interpreted as the impact crater of an iron meteorite with a diameter of one kilometer.
Individual evidence
- ↑ so called at OpenStreetMap
- ↑ Davies, William E .; Krinsley, Daniel B. (1962). The recent regimen of the ice cap margin in North Greenland. International Association of Scientific Hydrology, Commission of Snow and Ice. p. 124.
- ↑ Kurt H. Kjær, Nicolaj K. Larsen, Tobias Binder, Anders A. Bjørk, Olaf Eisen, Mark A. Fahnestock, Svend Funder, Adam A. Garde, Henning Haack, Veit Helm, Michael Houmark-Nielsen, Kristian K. Kjeldsen , Shfaqat A. Khan, Horst Machguth, Iain McDonald, Mathieu Morlighem, Jérémie Mouginot, John D. Paden, Tod E. Waight, Christian Weikusat, Eske Willerslev and Joseph A. MacGregor: A large impact crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier northwest in Greenland. Science Advances 14 Nov 2018: Vol. 4, no.11 , eaar8173 doi: 10.1126 / sciadv.aar8173 Retrieved January 12, 2020
- ↑ 31 kilometers wide: Crater shows: A giant meteorite once hit Greenland | ZEIT ONLINE November 14, 2018, 10:07 p.m. / Source: dpa. Retrieved January 12, 2020
- ↑ Crater under the ice indicates a massive impact. Meteorite crater discovered on Greenland - scinexx | The knowledge magazine November 15, 2018. Retrieved January 12, 2020