The Daugaard-Jensen Glacier is a large glacier on the southeast coast of Greenland, covering an area of 50,150 square kilometers and draining a substantial portion of the Greenland Ice Sheet. It discharges ice at a rate of about 10.5 cubic kilometers a year, as measured in 1996, and its terminus reaches into Nordvestfjord within Scoresby Sound, making it one of the main sources of icebergs north of Iceland. It was first mapped from the air in 1933 by Lauge Koch and named for Niels Daugaard-Jensen, a Danish official who headed the Greenland department and had earlier governed northern Greenland; recent measurements, including those featured in a National Geographic documentary by Alex Honnold, show the glacier has remained comparatively stable despite broader concerns about global warming.
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