| Leidy Glacier | |
|---|---|
| Leidy Gletscher | |
.jpg) Leidy Glacier as seen during an Operation IceBridge flight on 22 March 2017. Credit:NASA/Nathan Kurtz | |
  Location within Greenland | |
| Type | Tidal outlet glacier |
| Location | Greenland |
| Coordinates | 77°16′N 66°2′W / 77.267°N 66.033°W |
| Width | 4 km (2.5 mi) |
| Terminus | Academy Fjord Inglefield Fjord Baffin Bay |
| Status | Retreating[1] |
Leidy Glacier (Danish: Leidy Gletscher), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland.[2] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.
This glacier was named by Robert Peary after paleontologist, parasitologist, and anatomist Joseph Leidy (1823 – 1891), member of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.[3]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
hywas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Leidy Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
- ^ Robert Neff Keely, Gwilym George Davis, In Arctic Seas: the Voyage of the Kite with the Peary Expedition, 2011 p. 373