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Hans Tausen Ice Cap

Ice cap in Greenland

Field	Value
name	Hans Tausen Ice Cap
other_name	Hans Tausens Iskappe
photo	Operational Navigation Chart A-5, 3rd edition.jpg
photo_caption	Map of Far Northern Greenland.
type	Ice cap
location	Greenland
map	Greenland
map_caption	Location within Greenland
coordinates
mark	Blue_pog.svg
area	ca 4000 sqkm
length	100 km
width	80 km
thickness	max 600 m
status	The future development of the ice cap is highly dependent upon summer temperatures.

Hans Tausen Ice Cap () is an ice cap in Peary Land, northern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.

Age

Ice cores show it is around 3500–4000 years old. It formed since the Holocene climatic optimum of 6000-8000 BP. It is a well studied ice cap, and is important to understanding the Holocene climatic optimum.

Geography

The ice cap is located south of Amundsen Land and the Nordpasset, at the western end of the De Long Fjord area, east of Freuchen Land across the inner J.P. Koch Fjord, west of Odin Fjord and south of the O.B. Bøggild Fjord. It is about 100 km from north to south and 80 km from east to west and sits on a 1300 m high plateau.

The Hans Tausen Ice Cap is the source of many glaciers, including the Ymer Glacier to the east, the Aajaku Glacier, Inukitsaq Glacier and Persuaq Glacier to the west, and the Lur Glacier and Tjalfe Glacier to the north.

References

[https://web.archive.org/web/20170323142501/http://www.iceandclimate.nbi.ku.dk/publications/theses/hanstauseniskappenorthgreenland-studiesusinganiceflowmodel.pdf Paper on ice flow PDF]
[https://asiaq.maps.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=c5c7d9d52a264980a24911d7d33914b5 Nunat Aqqi; Stednavne]
"Hans Tausen Iskappe, North Greenland - Studies using an ice flow model".
(2001). "Textures, fabrics and meltlayer stratigraphy in the Hans Tausen ice core, North Greenland - indications of late Holocene ice cap genration? In: (U.C. Hammer, ed.) the Hans Tausen Ice Cap Glaciology and Glacial Geology". Meddelelser om Grønland, Geoscience.
(2010). "Early to middle Holocene valley glaciations on northernmost Greenland". Quaternary Science Reviews.
[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jon_Landvik/publication/230709679_The_glacial_history_of_the_Hans_Tausen_Iskappe_and_the_last_glaciation_of_Peary_Land_North_Greenland/links/0fcfd50e0335f57e48000000.pdf The glacial history of the Hans Tausen Iskappe and the last glaciation of Peary Land, North Greenland]
[http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2015/EGU2015-1540.pdf On the Holocene evolution of Hans Tausen Iskappe (Greenland)]
Landvik et al 2001
[[GoogleEarth]]
[http://travelingluck.com/North+America/Greenland/Nordgr%C3%B8nland/_3423569_Hans+Tausen+Iskappe.html#local_map Traveling Luck for Hans Tausen Iskappe]

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