Guldfaxe (glacier)

Guldfaxe
Guldfaxe Gletscher
Kattertooq and Sehested Fjords map section
Location within Greenland
Location	Greenland
Coordinates	63°13′N 42°30′W
Terminus	Rimfaxe Glacier Sehested Fjord, North Atlantic Ocean

Guldfaxe (Danish: Guldfaxe Gletscher[1]) is a glacier of the King Frederick VI Coast area in the Sermersooq municipality, southeastern Greenland.

This glacier is named after Gullfaxi, the golden-maned horse of Norse mythology.

Geography

Guldfaxe is a large, active glacier flowing from the eastern side of the Greenland ice sheet.[2]

The Guldfaxe glacier flows roughly eastward between sharp nunataks and flows into the right side of the Rimfaxe Glacier shortly before its terminus in the Sehested Fjord.[3]

See also

• List of glaciers in Greenland
• Skinfaxe (glacier)

References

1. Den grønlandske Lods – Geodatastyrelsen Archived 2020-10-28 at the Wayback Machine p. 34
2. GoogleEarth
3. "Guldfaxe". GeoHack. Retrieved 11 June 2021.

External links

• Vulnerability of Southeast Greenland Glaciers to Warm Atlantic Water From Operation IceBridge and Ocean Melting Greenland Data
• Guldfaxe Glacier, NASA
• Rimfaxe and Guldfaxe Glaciers – NASA, Operation IceBridge
• Figure S21. Aerial images recorded in the latter half of World War II