Mittivakkat Glacier is part of the largest ice field on Ammassalik Island in southeast Greenland. First surveyed in 1933, it has been in retreat, with a negative net mass balance, through most of the recorded period from 1898 to 2008, making it the most extensively studied glacier in Greenland that is not connected to the Greenland ice sheet; the University of Copenhagen and University of Graz jointly operate the nearby Sermilik Station research base. In 2005 researchers recovered reindeer remains from the glacier dated to roughly 1200 to 1300 AD.
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