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Rink Glacier (Melville Bay)
Rink Glacier
, is a
glacier
in NW
Greenland
. Administratively it
belongs to
the
Avannaata
municipality
.
This glacier was named after
Danish
geologist
and
explorer
of Greenland
Hinrich Johannes Rink
.
Geography
The Rink
Glacier is located in the
Lauge Koch Coast
,
Melville Bay
. It originates in the
western
Greenland ice sheet
and
flows
southwestwards between the
Døcker Smith Glacier
to
the west
and the
Peary Glacier
to the
east
. Its
terminus
lies
ENE
of
Cape Murdoch
,
northeast
of the
Fisher Islands
and
north
of the
Balgoni Islands
in
Melville
Bay.