C. H. Ostenfeld Glacier

C. H. Ostenfeld Glacier (Danish: C. H. Ostenfeld Gletscher) is one of the major glaciers in northern Greenland, originating from the Greenland Ice Sheet. Its catchment area covers nearly 14 500 km2, or about 1.2% of Greenland’s entire ice sheet surface. If all that ice were to melt, it would raise global sea levels by an estimated 3.9 centimeters. This glacier was first mapped by Lauge Koch in 1917 during Knud Rasmussen's 1916-1918 Second Thule Expedition to north Greenland and was named after Danish botanist Carl Hansen Ostenfeld (1873–1931), author of Flora of Greenland and its origin.

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