Inostrantsev Glacier


The Inostrantsev Glacier is one of the major glaciers in Novaya Zemlya, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.
It was named after Russian geologist, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and professor at St. Petersburg University Alexander Alexandrovich Inostrantsev by Arctic explorer Georgy Sedov.

Geography

The Inostrantsev Glacier is located on the western side of northern Severny Island of Novaya Zemlya. Flowing from the Severny Island ice cap, it is a roughly southeast-northwest oriented tidewater glacier and its front, where other three smaller tributary glaciers merge, has a width of over 3 km. Its terminus is at the Inostrantsev Bay of the Barents Sea, a 14 km wide and 130 m deep fjord.