Hiawatha Glacier

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Hiawatha Glacier is a glacier in northwest Greenland, with its terminus in Inglefield Land. It was mapped in 1922 by Lauge Koch, who noted that the glacier tongue extended into Lake Alida (near Foulk Fjord). Hiawatha Glacier attracted attention in 2018 because of the discovery of a crater beneath th

e surface of the ice sheet in the area. A publication noted in 1952 that Hiawatha Glacier had been retreating since 1920. It was named after Hiawatha, a 16th-century native American leader.

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