Maniitsoq Ice Cap

Geography

There are no settlements in the vicinity of the ice cap. In the southeast, Maniitsoq ice cap is separated from the westward tongue of the Greenland ice sheet by the narrow Kangerlussuatsiaup Qingua valley. The summit of the ice cap reaches between 1300 m and 1800 m. The maximum height is marked as an 8000 ft high summit in the Defense Mapping Agency Greenland Navigation charts, although it does not rise above 1850 m.

In the south, several mountain glaciers drain it towards the upper reaches of the Kangerlussuatsiaq Fjord. To the west, the ice cap is drained by the long Sermitsiaq Glacier. To the northwest, numerous mountain glaciers drain it towards Kangerlussuaq Fjord. To the northeast of the ice sheet lies the wide highland of Angujaartorfiup Nunaa, home to herds of muskoxen, originally reintroduced in its northern part from the populations of the Northeast Greenland National Park.

References

References

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2. [[Google Earth]]
3. [http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/onc/txu-pclmaps-oclc-8322829_c_13.jpg 1:1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart, Sheet B-9]
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