The Academy of Sciences Glacier (; Lednik Akademii Nauk), is a large ice cap on Komsomolets Island, Severnaya Zemlya, Russian Federation.
It is the largest in Severnaya Zemlya and is also the largest single glacier formation of Russia.
History
This glacier was named after the Soviet Academy of Sciences by the 1930–1932 expedition to the archipelago led by Georgy Ushakov and Nikolay Urvantsev.
A long ice core was drilled between 1999 and 2001 from a drilling site located near the summit of the Academy of Sciences Glacier.
Geography
The Academy of Sciences Glacier is roughly circular in shape with a diameter of about and an area of . It covers almost two thirds of Komsomolets island, except for an unglaciated area at the northern end. Its average height is with a maximum elevation of .
This vast ice cap is located on the southern side of the island, stretching from coast to coast, with the Laptev Sea on its eastern side at Krenkel Bay, the Red Army Strait in the south and the Kara Sea on the west at Zhuravlev Bay.
In popular culture
The Academy of Sciences Glacier is portrayed in the 2021 film The Tomorrow War as the site which a group attempts to prevent the escape of aliens from a ship, 28 years before they do, without detection and spread across the planet.
See also
List of glaciers in Russia
Ice drilling
References
External links
Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World
A stable isotope record of an ice core from Akademii Nauk ice cap
Akademii Nauk ice cap, Severnaya Zemlya - an example of a glacier grown in Late Holocene The Glaciology of the Russian High Arctic from Landsat Imagery