| Daugaard-Jensen Glacier | |
| Location: | Greenland |
| Map: | Greenland |
| Coordinates: | 71.7667°N -44°W |
| Mark: | Blue_pog.svg |
| Area: | 50,150 km2 |
| Terminus: | Nordvestfjord, Greenland Sea |
The Daugaard-Jensen Glacier is a large glacier located on the southeast coast of Greenland.
The glacier was first mapped in 1933 by Lauge Koch during aerial surveys made during the 1931–34 Three-year Expedition to East Greenland (Treårsekspeditionen). It is named in honour of Niels Daugaard-Jensen, who was head of the Greenland department under the Danish Ministry of State and former governor (Landsfoged) of Northern Greenland.[1]
Located in the northwestern side of Hinksland and south of Charcot Land, it drains an area of 50,150 km2 of the Greenland Ice Sheet with a flux (quantity of ice moved from the land to the sea) of 10.5 km3 per year, as measured for 1996.[2]
With its terminus in the Nordvestfjord of the Scoresby Sound, it is one of the main producers of icebergs to the north of Iceland.[3] In an original docuseries of Alex Honnold on National Geographic it is mentioned that measurements of the glacier have shown that it is stable despite global warming.